The Cook wrote:


Find the county extension office for the area. They will have good
advice on what kind and what variety grows well in your area.

http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/index.html

--
Susan N.

Susan,

My guess would be that most county extension offices are not into fruit
trees. I would try
specialists at Universities, message forums like ours, and those of several
fruit clubs throughout
the USA. My club Midfex at www.midfex.org has links to some of these clubs,
like the
Northern Nut Growers Association. Unless he is in some kind of mini-climate
zone with
special conditions, he should be good with any trees for zone 5. I have
purchased fruit trees
from California rated for zone 5 that have grown marvelously here in the
Chicago area.

Sherwin