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Product Development Continued..... Over the last five years we have been involved in the weaning and development of a number of plants from tissue culture. From January 2005 we took over the our main tissue culture supplier Plant Technology Ltd in Enniscorthy Ireland. This has been quite a big undertaking and we are still developing our own lines in the laboratory. This development has enabled us to focus on our production lines and those of our strategic partners ensuring we have full control over the production information and potential to develop these lines. After 12 months we have made good progress and we have a number of significant product lines established. In the course of 2006 more of these lines will be made available as plugs and liners from FitzGerald Nurseries. We are now in a position to offer customers a comprehensive package of services for the supply and development of both new and novel plant lines. Most importantly we are also collaborating with other tissue culture and production specialists through formal production agreements to ensure safe supply from year to year. Due to current uncertainty on some product lines especially in the woody shrub area of production and an increase in the production of our foliage and container lines we decided to limit our production of shrub lines. Apart from our basic lines where demand is somewhat predictable we now intend working on many lines based on orders in before production cut off times. In general from shrub plugs this means where orders are not placed before July 2006 for deciduous lines and August 2006 for evergreen lines supply cannot be assured. For liners this will depend on the subject and more detail will follow on this matter. To ensure reliable and plentiful supply of cutting material we have however invested in planting motherstock of many of our shrub lines. We make this commitment on behalf of our customers while informing you that we cannot produce these lines on a speculative basis in the future. You will receive this information in detail early in 2006. © COPYRIGHT 2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FITZGERALD NURSERIES Ltd. OLDTOWN, STONEYFORD, Co.KILKENNY, REPUBLIC of IRELAND TEL:+353 (0)56 7728418 FAX:+353 (0)567728481 |