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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing

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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (1249)	10/17/2001 11:07:22 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 3495

Good question but the answer is sort of a zinger. Back in the olden days when Johnny Appleseed walked the earth, the government was giving away land but the catch was that you had to cultivate it. Planting apple trees was ipso facto evidence of cultivation. Soooo, short answer is that it didn't matter whether the apple trees which were planted were good apples, it only mattered that they were planted. John Chapman did a wonderful business selling apple seedlings to people who needed to prove up their claim and was a very good business man. So said the owner of Rural Ridge Farms vintagevirginiaapples.com Of course you really can propagate apples by seeds, but they will express the DNA of the parents. An apple grafted from scionwood is like a clone - it will breed true. Most of us are not so remarkable that we are worth cloning - but imagine what the child of Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein would be like - with her body and his mind - wow! With his body and her mind - eh! So sometimes cloning makes sense - and sometimes it's interesting to see what happens when you let nature take its course.

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