Next year there will be no happy anticipation of the best ten days or so of the summer when the Kit Donnell peaches are ripe at Andy’s because there will be no Andy’s.

Raintree is a nursery my sister shopped at when she lived in Washington. Loved the place.

Nobody else seems to stock that variety this year, or if they did, people who know a good thing have snapped it up. I sure hope so. It worried me that a big wholesale grower has taken it off their list; it cannot be allowed to vanish when Andy’s goes. He and Kit created it. The peaches are too juicy and the skins too thin to hold up to commercial mass production. The flavor!

Today we finally decided and now Raintree’s stock is officially down by one.

When I put its roots into the ground we should have music to celebrate: how about, Another One Bites the Dust?