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[tanis <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Last year I sent to the Pomona editor an article which included my 
recommendation to grow crops of faster growth and shorter lifespan than 
standard apple trees, considering the increasing weather extremes.  Against 
my own advice, I salvaged seeds while processing some apples last year.  Two 
chance-seedling small apples or apple-crabs, one yellow, one red.  I know the 
yellow grows nowhere near true to type.  If anyone wants to try growing their 
own seedling rootstocks and missed other chances at 2013 seeds, reply off 
list.

I kept some pear seeds too.  (Hey, if you toss 'em, you don't have 'em.)  
Mostly from a Bartlett-type of forgotten name.

tc, s.WI, telling the young neighbors "Winters always used to be like this."