Hello,I want some of these however I've already mailed out your package and I'm sure you have mine to so if you would save me a trade of them for another time I'd be most grateful.Debbie

Was Dr. Carolyn a mutation from Galinas? Would that be considered a sport? I don't have Carolyn's book in front of me, but I think both are in there??? ***** I saved seed from Galina's Yellow and the next year when I sowed those seeds I got plants with salmon, pink, yellow, red and ivory fruits and all the plants were RL. Galina is PL. The ivory colroed one was far and away the best both in terms of taste and plant vigor, and I saved those seeds and wrote mutant on the vial. To this day I have no idea what kind of muation it could have been. A sport can refer to a mutation of the DNA in the seed or to a mutation in the cell of a plant, which are called somatic mutations. When a somatic mutation occurs one can have one wrong colored fruit on a plant with all correct colored fruits, and it was a somatic mutation that led to Yellow Riesentraube. Also with a port ( somatic) mutation one can find one branch with differently colored fruits or a branch with altered shape of fruits. I've had two somatic mutations of that type. At the same time a good friend in Utah, Steve Draper, had had the same thing happen and asked if I'd send him all my different colored ones. I did, and he also thought the ivory one was the best. Without telling me he listed it in the SSE Yearbook as Dr. Carolyn and was I ever surprised. It has some of the genes from Galina's which almost everyone says is a great cherry variety, and I agree. (IS there a definition of Heirloom out there?) There are several definitions of heirloom out there but no one accepted definition. Carolyn

Sorry, egg yolks aren't "scraps".

A guest who grew up in a Mom and Pop restaurant in a small town read your post and said ''It sounds like old eggs to me.''