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Lady Alice, marketed
exclusively by Rainier
Fruit Company of Selah,
Washington, and named
after the mother of
company founder, Bill
Zirkle, was discovered
as a chance seedling in
the Gleed, Yakima,
orchard of
Don Emmon.
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