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From: djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: catalog suggestions
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Date: 14 Sep 93 16:38:28 GMT
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In article <272j9s$b3u@morrow.stanford.edu> Kathy Rehm Switky <krswit@leland.stanford.edu> writes:
>Hello fellow dirt lovers,
>I am just planning my first garden for my new house, and would like
>suggestions from the net about seed catalogs.  I'm interested in organic
>seeds, local varieties, and heirloom seeds in particular.  I'm also
>interested in mail-ordering some unusual fruit trees....
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Some one last week asked about unusual fruit trees, and I had no info then.
But now I have hit the mother lode.  That is, I just received a book I sent
for from the Seed Savers Exchange, titled "Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory".
It lists thousands of cultivars and (!!!) where they can be ordered.

I was up quite late last night reading it, and can't begin to list all the
neat stuff.  For example, under "Miscellaneous Nuts" (a chapter I was
somehow drawn to) I found "Yellowhorn (Xanthoceras sorbifolia)" listed as
an ornamental small tree, hardy to -30, with nuts that taste like
macadamias!  I gotta have it!

Also it lists regular and cold hardy citruses, rhubarbs (rhubarbi?), hops's
(hopi?), grapes, strawberries, and of course many many apples, peaches, etc.,
including heirloom and unusual varieties.

My favorite section is the "Miscellaneous" in the very back.  It lists several
cultivars of Cornus Mas--which is what I have been looking for.  Also a
honeysuckle with edible berries.  Also, buffalo berry.  Also autumn olive.`
I could go on and on.

I wish I could post the book, and I will post neat stuff I find every so 
often.  If anyone wants to order the book write to

   Seed Savers Exchange,
   3076 North Winn Road
   Decorah, Iowa 52101

The book cost me $22 total, softcover.  (No, I don't work for them, and
they are not paying me for a plug.)

Dave Daulton, Columbus, Ohio, Zone 5


