>From: "Dean Kreutzer" <deankreutzer@hotmail.com>
I am planning
>on doing some breeding to create a dwarfing, very cold hardy pear
>rootstock.
> I am working with P. ussuriensis, P. betulafolia, P. pyrifolia and for
>dwarfing I am including Amelanchier alnifolia, and I would like to include
>the best of the O.H. x farmingdale seedlings.
Dean, three cheers to your project! Being new to this subject, what little
I have read om it seems to put craetagus ahead of amelanchier for
compatability and longetivity. I'd be curious to hear more, I hope to graft
O.H.xF onto wild versions of both this spring. Del z2/3
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