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Phil Gurr wrote:
"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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Phil Gurr wrote:
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This year I bought some called Tullameen and we're going to grow
the canes ourselves. The flavour was superb.
I don't know how this variety got its name as Tullameen is a small
town in the Canadian Rockies some 200 miles east of Vancouver. I
know it well as in my youth I was based there, prospecting for gold
and platinum. It is not a fruit growing area and most of the houses
are holiday homes. I have never grown this variety despite my connections.
I would guess that it's a location in Ireland which has been
transplanted across the pond, like innumerable other Irish and
Scottish placenames.
No such place, either in Scotland or Ireland!

Well, Isle of Man, Brittany and a host of other Gaelic-speaking communities.

Anyway, how can you be sure? Have you looked for its Gaelic spelling?

Can you tell me where Creag a Bhodaich is?

Which one? (A Sutherland one turns up in the archaeological and
geological literature, but there appear to be instances in Lewis, Mull,
and Lochaber as well, at least.)
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Stewart Robert Hinsley