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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

Patsy, it looks like they scraped (i.e. stole) those descriptions and 
pictures from some UK nursery websites.  Its too bad as some of those 
varieties sound interesting.  Here is a UK site with many of the exact same 
descriptions/pictures for example: 

http://www.grow-your-own-fruit.co.uk/?s=apricot&search=Search

Scott

On Apr 11, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Patsy King wrote:

> Hi all,  and especially Bob Purvis and apricot folks, I encountered the
> site plantcares.com, which has a link on its left side of the page for
> "plant database".  When I clicked that and then to apricots, I encountered
> all sorts of wonderful sounding varieties, not to mention a rootstock mont
> clare or mount claire ? that I had not heard of.  When I googled the
> apricot varieties, all I found were UK sites selling them. However, I have
> emailed the customer service at plantcares.com, and he said they were grown
> by 2 different US nurseries that they get the trees from.  I can't find any
> info on this company...do any of you know about them?  They show an address
> in Louisville KY.  Here is the link to the scrumptious sounding apricot
> page:
> http://www.plantcares.com/apricot-tree
> Thanks for any info anybody has about them!
> Patsy