As far as I am aware, most modern fruit production relies on grafting known fruit-bearing branches onto hardy rootstock. Most attempts to grow a tree from the seed of a tasty fruit are, shall we say, fruitless.

DWA: He said, OYOH, that there are only 1 out of 100 bearing nectarine seedling trees but they can be fertilized from roses.

While there are "Rose Nectarines", they aren't roses. Unless your friend is strip-searching the local bees to be certain about the source of the pollen they are bringing to the nectarines, I would say that his observations are about on the level of what a lot of IDeists present.

DWA: I have never seen an open Johnny Walker container/bottle at his place of business. Old folk tales, or incorrectly learned/disputed orchadist's lessons are possible in this report, I suppose. What technical biological term(s) regarding nectarine tree fertility would you suggest?

You could ask someone at Walla Walla College who specializes in fruit production. Otherwise, you would have to isolate some nectarine flowers before they open and try hand-pollinating with a rose.

DWA: Next time I see him, in cherry season, I may pursue that topic of the *rare* flowering ?misidentified "nectarine" tree that stands alone, here, next to some rose bushes, and bears fruit.

Ask him how far a bee can fly and if there are any other peach or nectarine trees within that radius.

DWA: I see this morning on History Channel that we are at the "unlikely" point of recognising our human closeness with pigs, of beneficially using many pig tissues in humans.

Some people may be closer than others, but their usefulness as valve donors is based more on size and plenitude than rejection risk and we don't really use their insulin now that we can manufacture our own by co-opting the synthetic machinery of micro-organisms.

DWA: "Interestingly", that was a serpent-draped "apple" tree in the Garden of Eden. So, Tyrannosaurus rex apples came before degenerating into the wild nectarine-fertilising unruly roses, then?