Looks great! This is the first time I received a paper copy. Is this the first year he has offered grafting tools? I bet this forum has brought Mr. Fahey a lot of business.
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Thanks for posting this, Clark. Just got my copy a couple of days ago, but it’s helpful to have it here for reference in case I misplace it. (Spoiler alert: I will misplace it…)
I wonder if you or anyone else knows whether the “Comptesse” pear that Singing Tree is offering scion wood for is Comtesse de Paris (which seems quite rare in the US?) or Comtesse Clara Frijs (which Singing Tree has offered in the past but does not seem to have listed this year, at least not under that name), or some other Comtesse that my internet searches haven’t been able to come up with.
If nobody knows, I may just send Mr. Fahey a letter to inquire, but figured it was worth asking.
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Unfortunately I’m not sure either. Your approach of sending a letter is likely wise but perhaps he only knows it by that name as well in which case growing it out is the only way to know what it is.
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Thanks for the reply, Clark. As it turns out, there are more clues right in this thread, though it’s not entirely clear which direction they’re pointing! Looking back at previous editions of the Singing Tree list, I see that in Jan 2017 “Comptesse” and “Clara Frijs” appear as different items, one immediately following the other, but in December 2015 “Comptesse Clara Frijs” appears on one line as a single item. Pretty confusing!
But since Hedrick does have the full name of Clara Frijs as “Comtesse Clara Frijs,” and since there doesn’t seem to be a better-known pear that goes simply by “Comtesse”, I’m guessing that the 2015 list was correct, and that the current “Comptesse” is probably Clara Frijs. I’ll ask, though, since I do plan to order some pear scions from them. (Time to bounce back from my rookie mistakes of a couple of years ago…)
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Big Horse Creek Farm appears to be winding down:
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I am a federal employee- but not with USDA. The information stated here is correct for all furloughed federal government employees.
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thank you for the link Scott I have gotten scion wood from apple luscious the last few years and Harry is great to deal with but the difference in seasons between bc and ontario causes problems
I hate to see that. Hopefully someone will pick that business up and continue doing what they have been doing. Sooner or later we all just get to the point of stopping what we do for a living. I wish them a nice retirement.
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Interested in ordering from Richard Fahey with Singing Tree. Do I send cash or check or money order? Thanks!
I’ve always sent a check.
Thank you!
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Anyone ordering from Temperate Orchard Conservancy this year? I sent them a check last month for a few cultivars, then a few weeks later sent a message asking if they received it. Haven’t heard back. They seem to be pretty hard to get ahold of. Does anyone have contact information besides their inquiry form on the website?
Nevermind. Phone number is on the Facebook page.
Joanie will get back with you it just takes awhile.
Yeah I got my order confirmed from the TOC a few days ago, great people, if I lived there I’d deff volunteer.
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I wonder why he spoke about Kittageskee near a year after this article was published. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/5-types-of-apples-once-thought-extinct-are-rediscovered/
Either way its a cool story and hopefully TOC will have scion wood for it in the next year or 2.
I just wanted to note that I ordered scions from Brent (via Ebay) and couldn’t be happier! We communicated through Ebay multiple times and he was always very fast to respond. He had an inventory error on one of the apple scions that I ordered so that scion was a little smaller than he would have liked it to be. He let me know that he would send it but offered the choice of another variety or a refund due to that scion’s size. The scions arrived today and they were actually larger and longer than expected. I have ordered a lot of scions from a lot of places this year and understand that not every scion is going to be the perfect size, but when he says that his scions are pencil diameter, they really are.
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Clark, Thank you for posting those pages for Singing Tree. I had never heard of him, but placed an order earlier last month and am happily awaiting my cuttings in anticipation of grafting season.
I ordered a few plums, a couple red-fleshed apples, Dolgo and RI Greening.
Its funny I read here how easily apples graft, but that is the one fruit that I have repeatedly failed to graft successfully. (granted most of the time my failures have had unanticipated reasons for failure)…
Scott
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Thank you glad to help out!