To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Re: Let the customer beware
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:57:24 -0400
About a quarter century ago I had a temporary job with a local nursery
for a few weeks. I heard one of the co-owner brothers tell a permanent
employee to re-lable a batch of Hedelfingen sweet cheerries as Bings,
because they were going to be shipped to a garden centre at
Peterborough, where sweet cherries would be most unlikely to fruit if
they survived, though a Hedelfingen might live a few years.
I think the only solution is to buy from a nursery to which their fruit
tree business is important, and which is concerned about their
reputation (expects to be in business a long time, relies largely on
word-of-mouth advertising) and which is likely to have a significant
fraction of knowledgeable customers and repeat customers. It's
unfortunate that the recent postal service changes have handicapped this
class of suppliers.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, sherwin wrote:
Douglas,
Another problem not mentioned with big box stores is
mislabeling of varieties.