Yes, - I found out TODAY that Ambrosia is patented and not available in the US.
I pleaded with Summit Tree Sales to try and get me some trees for
2008 but the outlook is bleak.
We put a few trees in about 5 years ago and everyone was crazy about them.
I was so confident because they are in Willow Drive's catalog but not
being able to get them
did not make my day.
Such is life.
Dave Barclay
New Jersey
At 06:21 PM 5/14/2007, you wrote:
I tried ambrosia which was being grown at UNH Farm in NH I held a
tasting and ambrosia came out on top! As I understand it the nursery
in BC that dev'd ambrosia took back the rights to this variety, wood
not available on this patented var. I prefer holstein( a cox oranfe
pippin sib) that gets a reasonable size fairly easy to grow and
wonderful flavor. apple is 3" orange/ green with pink blush, doesn't
scab like some jap vars. ambrosia is definitely worth growing,
higher flavored than others dev'd recently. i prefer it to honeycrisp by far!
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