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I picked up my materials yesterday, cuttings of 5 pomegranate cultivars and 3 fig cultivars, along with the pomegranate trees for my formal trial I'm working on with USDA. I started out cool this morning, acutally had light frost on part of my farm, but ended up reaching about 80F today and it was warm work to be planting my trees. My pomegranate trial is 11 cultivars, 8 trees each, and will be my first participation in such a project and I've found it very interesting so far.

I noticed yesterday at Davis that they had loquats and I did not realize they were a repository for these. I looked at some of the tags but don't remember the names, none were familar (maybe 'Tanaka' was one). I was told their collection is pretty small.

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