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Old 07-02-2008, 04:45 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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"'Mike'" writes:
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| I fed 'Plant Breeders Alders' into Google and came up with quite a few
| articles.
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| Like :- Results 1 - 10 of about 30,400 for Plant Breeders Alders. (0.29
| seconds)
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| But we are all aware that as you go down the list, it drifts like an on
| topic subject on here to something way out of tune :-))

You clearly didn't look at the first 10 in detail, either :-)


I didn't look into ANY of them :-))



Only one referred to any actual alder breeding, and only a few even
mentioned it in a throwaway remark! Such as "Little work has been
done on alder genetics and breeding."


But at least the poster knows what has NOT been done doesn't he ? He also
knows what a Google with MY heading comes up with. Where is YOUR suggestion
for a heading? :-))


This newsgroup prides itself on being helpful. I tried to help :-))


Kind regards


Mike


I know that very little breeding work has been done on Alders. Books
on breeding ANY kind of plant wheat, roses, pansies, etc might be
useful, especially if they have similar handling charisteristics, eg
small tree/shrub, bearing catkins. Hazel for example, what's more it's
fairly closely related.

Michael Bell


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