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If birds are bothering your orchard or garden, provide a bird bath. Birds often peck fruits and vegetables mostly to get water.
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FRUIT TREES

Our Autumn pick-up date is Saturday, October 9, 2010 between 8am and 4pm. Please see Specials or this map to Marlbank for directions.

MULBERRY

Morus rubra
RED MULBERRY Z5/10m ‡
The only mulberry native to Canada. Purple blackberry-like fruit is sweet, juicy and edible. Great for wildlife. Ornamental as well, its many limbs giving a dense shade.

APRICOT

Prunus armeniaca var.
MANCHURIAN APRICOT Z3?/5m
Grown from a superior Manchurian seed source described as "Dependably hardy... Quality fruit suitable for home use." Several trees needed for X-pollination. Mauve flowers.

PEACH

I am fond of houses & flowers, even vegetables & fruit trees. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein

Prunus persica var.
BAILEY PEACH Z5?/3m ‡
Our best yet. Hardier than Reliance, the New Hampshire peach usually recommended for colder areas and as robust a grower as N. China varieties. Our seed source is an exceptionally productive tree S. of Lake Huron. Reports appreciated.

Prunus persica
CHUI-LUM TAO PEACH Z4b?/4m
Tested since 1964 at Harrow Research Station in S.W. Ontario (now closed), this elegant green-barked production peach from north-central China may be hardy into Zone 4b. We look forward to zone-specific customer reports on its winter survival rate.

PEAR

Pyrus (Blossoms)Pyrus ussuriensis
HARBIN PEAR Z2/6m
The hardiest species of pear known. From N.E. Manchuria. Resists fire-blight & ripens in a growing season of less than 150 days. Small green-yellow fruit is sometimes preserved. Excellent for livestock. The tree itself is indispensable in cold regions as a pollinator & rootstock. En masse it forms a flowering, fruiting, impenetrable property screen or living fence line.

APPLE

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple.
Who can count the apples in a seed?
Stephen Covey - The Sun

Malus sp. var. Royalty
ROYALTY CRAB Z2b/5m ‡
Everything about this lovely crabapple is red, even its inner bark. "Royalty stands out," says Country Journal, "because it has the most densely purple foliage of any crab." Looks good all season, not just while its red flowers bloom. From seed.

CHERRY

Oh, there's such a lot of things to do
and such a lot to be.
But there's always lots of cherries
on my little cherry tree.
Christopher Robin

Prunus tomentosa
MANCHU CHERRY Z2/1.8m ‡
Decorative, edible, easy to grow. Planted as food hedges in North China. A reliable cold area producer with nice white flowers & currant-red fruit. Food for pies, jelly or jam or eating fresh.
"The yield was so spectacular that we were forced to put aside everything & marvel." - Farmstead Magazine

PLUM

Prunus americana

Prunus americana
AMERICAN PLUM Z3/3.5 m
 Small, twiggy wild plum often forming thickets. Particularly lovely white flower clusters precede leaves. Red to yellow fruit used in preserves. Plant as pollinators on the edge of your designated plum area or as hardy ornamentals.

GRAPE

Vitis var.

Three hungry travelers with only one coin argued over what to eat. One wanted a sweet, another several sweets, the third was thirsty. A passing Sufi took their coin and bought grapes, satisfying them all.

KAY GRAY Z4
A white Swenson hybrid from the Wisconsin breeding program. Shares the vitality of 'Beta' but offers a much quality Riesling type fruit.

BACO NOIR Z4b?
French hybrid. Good yielder of blue- black medium berries even on heavy, poorly drained soils. Makes an excellent burgundy and ripens early.

CANADICE RED Z5
Red grape forming long clusters. Excellent for fresh eating and juicing. Ripens in mid Aug.-Sept.

GREENTO GRAPE Z4
An odd name for a red grape that is hardy to -40°F. Good for eating or wine-making. Developed by better gardeners in Québec.

MINNESOTA Z3
Sweet reddish-purple variety that requires pollinator due to having only female flowers.

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