On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:06:38 GMT, "Gene Schurg"
wrote:

The second thing that I noticed was how many vendors that no longer are in
business 30 years later. I guess people retire and their business just
fades away from memory.

A number of growers were severely impacted by the Benomyl problem that
occurred about 25 yrs ago. I think Jones and Scully fell in this
group. As Ray noted, they had great catalogs. Also hurricane Andrew
was hard on Florida growers.

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