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Robert Nitschke reported in his Southmeadow Fruit Gardens catalogue of 
1968
that he grew English Morello cherries against a north wall at Detroit 
and that the cherries "were of a size and flavour unobtainable in full 
sun."

I see that in a local forested city park here in the Niagara Peninsula, 
seedling sour cherries (probably
from Montmorency seed as that is the only one grown commercially here) 
grow readily in semishade and fruit sparsely.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:40:51 +0000, david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> You might also consider Morello sour cherry. I have one on Gisela 5
> from Raintree: it is small but what an addition to the yard! I have
> read several places that sour cherry tolerates some shade. Can't 
> speak
> to that from personal experience, as my Morello gets plenty of sun.
>
> Dave Liezen, E WA z6
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: filtertitle@aol.com
> > Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:16:07 -0500
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: [nafex] Shade-tolerance in these fruit crops?
> >
> > I have a spot that is a bit more then a partial-shade situation; 
> > which of the would be a better choice (factoring shade-tolerance with 
> > disease-susceptibility consequent to inadequate early-morning 
> > sun-exposure/-drying..
> >
> > European plum
> > Japanese hybrid plum
> > Edible crab-apples (Centennial, Chestnut, Wicksons)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Steve (NJ: 6b/7a)