SC - Pork or Boar in the TREES!

[Stefan li Rous]

Laurene writes:
>You can buy the PLANTS through Raintree Nursery, in Washington.
>http://www.raintreenursery.com/

>They have several varieties of strawberry plants (they also sell a Medival
>MEDLAR tree that I am anxious to purchase!) including the White Alpine
>strawberry you all are talking about so much.  Their catalogs are very
>informative and fun to read.  I'm sure you won't be dissapoint to order
one!

While I would very much like another medlar (I had a fruiting one at my
old house), I am very hesitant to pat the kinds of prices commercial
nurseries are charging (plus shipping).  Medlars, I understand, like
pawpaws do not transplant as well as most ordinary fruit trees unless
they are rather small.  What burns me is paying $24.99 for a bloody
rooted twig!  I do however have an alternative route to try.
As a landscape architect, I have wholesale sources for seed of
several expensive or hard to find species.  Would anyone on the
list be interested in splitting pound lots of seeds for the following
species?:
Asimina triloba (pawpaw)   28.00/#
Cornus mas     (Cornelian cherry)  12.00/#
Crataegus monogyna (English hawthorn)   15.00/#  (rosehaw jelly)
Crataegus laevigata    (English hawthorn)   18.00/#  (rosehaw jelly)
Mespilus germanica  (Medlar)    21.00/#
Pinus pinea  (Italian stone pine)  12.00/#   (pinenuts)
Taxus baccata  (English yew)   28.00/#      (herb garden edging)

Minimum order for me is $50.00 plus shipping and
the prices are from the 1999 catalogue so they may
be a little higher.  I find that growing from seed gives
better plants that can be transplanted in quantity when
small, resulting in a faster maturity than planting a larger
nursery grown plant.  The larger ones often take 2 years
so just to recover from shipping and transplant shock.
This is  the way to get more plants very reasonably.
Most of these are true to seed except medlars and cornels
but all of the named varieties are mostly modern and
very few in number.  I don't think there will be any adverse
differences in non grafted seed -grown plants from
 any period types anyway.

Akim
"No glory comes without pain"