To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Saskatoons,acidic soil
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:59:32 -0800 (PST)
That's stolonifera & arborea. Aren't the cropping cultivars alnifolia?
There was an article about amelanchiers in a pre-internet 'Pomona' which had
most of
a page devoted to a list of known species.
Hey Muffy, do I remember correctly that your soil is silt rather than sand?
--- mark wessel wrote:
> Tanis,
> I doubt that soil on the acidic side is your problem. In fact i think most
> prefer a slighty acidic soil. I have seen Amelanchier stolonifera growing on
> sandy,peaty tidal plane in Maine. Also, here in Southern ohio, one of our
> natives A. arborea grows on acid shale ridgetops.
>
> Mark
> southern ohio
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