Re: cold, hardiness, and lies
- Subject: Re: cold, hardiness, and lies
- From: W* G*
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:17:30 -0400
Not cold enough is as open to question as too cold.
Some years ago an English friend settled here and brought several
varieties of young apple trees - Cox, Eclipse, Ribston Pippin - out with
him despite the received wisdom that temperate zone fruit trees such as
apples and pears require a chill period (a certain number of days below
45F) in order to bear.
Despite the temperature never, ever falling below 65F here, and this but
rarely and only at the highest elevations, his apple trees are bearing
fruit. I was startled the first time I saw apples on his trees and looked
very carefully to see if they were attached by wires or epoxy cement. But
they were not and are quite tasty as well.
William Glover
Nevis, West Indies
