On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:25:36 -0700, Cindy Fuller
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
>
>snipped
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>> I've got until February or so to look into it-- and from what I've
>> seen so far, the NY nurseries only have white, so maybe the yellows
>> aren't hardy up here.
>>
>Depends on where you are in NYS. The area between Oswego and Rochester
>had numerous peach orchards when I was growing up. Additionally, the
>microclimates around the Finger Lakes that allow vinifera grapes to be
>grown would support peaches. I'd strongly suggest getting more than one
>tree, based on my experience with the apricot tree on the back 40 of our
>yard. The trees may not be self-pollinating.

I meant the donut varieties-- but I've got plenty of time to look.

I'm near where the Mohawk hits the Hudson & have a single peach tree
[yellow] in my back yard. The other half of the pair got murdered by
rabbits before it bore fruit-- and that year the one I had left had a
bumper crop so I never replaced the other one. Might just be this
[forgotten] variety- but it seems to like living alone.

There are a couple of local peach orchards - I should probably go to
one of them and pick their brains a bit.

Jim