Volume 31, No. 6 - November/December 1999

Burma: The Last Frontier for Tropical Fruits

With the Burmese relaxation of travel restrictions, Maurice Kong goes on a fruit collecting trip and reports on what he saw

Reports from the Festival of Fruit

Four talks from the August meeting are excerpted or reported:
Jeanine Pfeiffer speaks on the ethnobotany of Indonesia's Native Fruits
George Emerich outlines the basics of growing black sapotes
Robert Chambers tells what to expect (or not) when you grow white sapotes
Nancy Garrison gives some results from her experiment to learn which blueberries grow best in her area

Raisins: Making them at Home

Lon Rombough concludes that producing raisins at home is more for fun than for serious commerce

Zinc: An Essential Element for Tree Health

Mits Kawahara says trees respond to zinc with a burst of new growth

It Hurts to be Stung by Fire Ants

The Wipe Away Pain! Company has a medicated first-aid gel to relieve the pain

Pollination Without the Sting

Wild bees are better than honey bees as pollinators, write Gary Aubuchon and Eunice Messner, and they tell you where to get them and how to keep them

Fruits of Our History

A brief account by Joel and Arlene Moskowitz of perhaps the first legal battle over the ownership of fruit trees

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