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Hi Lucky,

I know a mulberry tree in zone 4b north of Ottawa, that is big for a mulberry and has produce mulberries for years. I don't know the variety or how the quality compares to other mulberry trees, but the owner spread a bed sheet under his tree once in a while and shakes the tree. He then separates the black ones from the red and green ones that also fall along with some leaves and twigs. His mulberry pies are quite good.

 

Hélène, zone 3

----- Original Message -----

From: Lucky Pittman

To: nafex@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:00 PM

Subject: Re: [nafex] mulberry

At 06:27 PM 06/14/2001 +0000, Del wrote:
>I have purchesed a 'siberian mulberry' and a 'northern mulberry' hoping to
>get something to grow and  fruit here  (had a black mulberry back
>home..great pies.)

I suspect that both of these are probably seedling M.alba selections, but
don't know for sure.
Bill MacKently offers a tissue-cultured M.alba selection, "Northrop" from
St.Lawrence Nurseries(http://www.sln.potsdam.ny.us) that's supposed to have
survived -50F.

I've seen a bit of confusion on classification of the various named
mulberry selections, with many of the 'better' ones classified as
M.rubraXM.alba hybrids.  Wellington, selected at Geneva, NY, is supposed to
be a very good one, and I've seen it classified both as M.nigra and
M.rubraXalba.  Mine hasn't fruited yet - hope to get a few berries off of
it this year.  Has experienced some pretty significant winter-kill here in
southern KY, so I have some doubt that it'd work well in MN...


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY



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