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  • From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] ,prunus rootstocks
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 03:23:51 -0000

Thanks! I didn't know of the root sucker habit of virginiana., and the
article didn't mention it. So the ones I graft will then be in the forest
edge, not the orchard proper. I'm curious about this prunus nigra, I just
presumed what we had wild here was 'americana'. Mn. Del


>From: "H.Dessureault" <inter.verbis@atreide.net>

>Beware moving this in your nursery, if you don't want to spend your time
>pulling roots.
>Prunus virginiana has the unfortunate habit of spreading wildly from the
>root. It can send numerous underground shoots many feet. When you graft
>something on this type of prunus, it soon finds itself tighly surrounded by
>bushes of choke cherries.
>
>
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