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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: Sam Franc <franc@harborside.com>
  • Subject: Re: Huckleberries
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:25:48 -0500

Thanks. I just put a check for $10 in the mail.

Ginda

Sam Franc wrote:
>
> Ginda Fisher wrote:
>
> > Thank you - that would be great! Send me your address and stuff, and I
> > will send you postage. It gets colder here than 9F (typically, we get a
> > couple of winter nights below zero) but I think it may be worth a try
> > anyhow. It sounds like the perfect plant for the strip between my house
> > and the backyard neighbor if it survives.
> >
> > Ginda Fisher
> > 22 Linwood Road
> > Wellesley, MA
> > 02481
> >
> > franc@harborside.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Noticed your plea about them.
> > > They grow wild in our forrest here on the Oregon Coast.
> > > We have gotten down to 9 here and it did not kill them.
> > > They are my wife's favorite berry for pies and eating on her cerial.
> > > I don't think I have tasted a better pie than she makes out of them.
> > > They get mostly no sun at all in our forrested lot.
> > > It is 90% Sitka Spruce, about 150' tall and completely shades the
> > > forrest floor. There is a tree about every 20 feet and the
> > > huckleberries grow between them in the duff.
> > > I imagine they would grow in an eastern oak forest just as well.
> > > They seem to like the extremely acid conditions here.
> > > If you want to pay for shipping I can send some seedlings by Priority
> > > Mail.
> > > They are weed here and I have to pull them up all the time.
> > > The birds spread the seeds.
> > > Sam
>
> My mail address is 83601 Clear Lake Road
> Florence, OR 97439
>
> The last time I sent some east it came to about $7.




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