From: Beckett <thomas@tbeckett.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:53:21 -0400
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sato Nishiki cherries
Mark Lee wrote:
> I read a Reuters story this morning about a Japanese cherry variety called
> Sato Nishiki. Here is a link:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=4&u=/nm/20030
> 708/od_nm/cherries_dc
>
> People are stealing these cherries in the night from orchards. Why would
> someone do this, and what makes this news worthy? Because these fruits are
> so valuable that they are known as "red diamonds". A small box of these
> sell for $130. They must be really good cherries.
Hmmn. What hardiness zone is Yamagata? Where can we get
some scionwood?
Thomas Beckett
Z7, North Carolina
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