Volume 30, No. 6 - November/December 1998

Reports from the Festival of Fruit

Seven talks from the September meeting are excerpted or reported:

• Peggy Winter evokes CRFG's Experimenting Spirit
• Julie Frink gives an Avocado Overview and explains a Clonal Graft
• Lee Bathgate and Sally Sanderson divulge some secrets of Cooking and Preserving Fruits
• Jim Bathgate helps us with Deciduous Fruits for Southern Counties
• Jim Wright offers some amazing Palm Tidbits
• Glenda Urmacher reports on her experiences in Pruning, Composting and Growing Fruit from Seed
• Tom del Hotal talks about and illustrates Grafting Techniques and Bob Chambers reports on the talk

Fruiting Plants in the Native Medicine Basket

Alice Ramirez reports on medicinal properties of some of the teas brewed by Native Americans and Hawaiians from wild berry-plant leaves

Let Garden Art Spice Up Your Backyard

You'd be surprised what you can find to decorate your garden if you keep an open mind, writes Marianne Friedman

Useful Products from Southern California Palms

Palm trees are beautiful, says Dr. Art Schroeder, but they also are the source of useful products

California Coquitos: Backyard Coconuts

Patrick Schafer tells why you may want to plant this easy-to-grow but hard-to-get palm

CRFG News

1998 Fruit Shoot (Photo Contest) Winners
Fruit Registrations
Special Holiday Gift Offer

Obituary

Don Gholston

Departments

Ask the Experts
Container Gardening (Responsibility)
CRFG Chapters
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Marketplace
Organic Gardening Q&A (Why so few peaches?) President's Message
Publications & Merchandise List
Seed Bank
Vegetable Patch (Winter Veggies)