On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:48:23 PM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-07-22 4:18 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>

> > The Bing cherries from Washington are glorious this year. They are
> > huge, almost the size of a ping-pong ball, juicy, sweet and almost
> > black in color. I've gotten cherries at Winco and Costco. All
> > cherries were great. Be on the lookout for them

> There are lots of cherries grown around here, and many varieties. I
> don't recall ever seeing Bings. Cherries are one of those fruits that
> are so much better freshly picked, so there is no chance of me buying
> imported Bings when I can fresh cherries from the orchards around the
> corner from us.

Odd, Bing is a recommended cultivar for Ontario (University of Guelph).
Those grown in the Sun Parlour were always ripe by July 4.

My grandparents would always cross over to buy a peck of sweet cherries
at that time every year. For a few years (until the fish dieoff grew too
obnoxious) they would rent a cottage for us on the lake, near Leamington,
at that time of year. Once we toured the Heinz factory. I remember
going to the supermarket, the front of which had pallets of 50 pound sacks of
Redpath sugar.