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[Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Deer will eat the shoots of some Ribes here, but mostly the Ribes Odoratum. 
The smell of regular red and black currant foliage seems to put them off,
and I've never seen any damage on gooseberries, even thornless ones.
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>From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
>To: Ribes NAFEX <RibesNAFEX@topica.com>
>Subject: [RibesNAFEX] Ribe Book?
>Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2001, 2:33 PM
>

>Hello,
>
>Are there any good books that deal strictly with ribes?
>
>Christmas is coming and I want to know titles. (smile)
>
>Also, this may sound like a dumb question, but I will ask anyway...  Do
>cattle forage from ribes, or do they leave them alone?  My guess is that
>they do but you never know unless you ask.  I know that rabbits seem to
>leave the ribes alone and go for other fruits.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom
>
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