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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 04:30 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, David wrote:
> In my setting I have found Collier to be superior to Illinois Everbearing.
> I know over the years I've heard several people say that nothing is better
> than IE, but here the Collier has better production, better size, better
> flavor, and it is juicier and more attractive.  We don't even hardly bother
> to go to our IE trees, as the Collier is so good.  I also have several good
> seedlings I have selected over the years from the local area, but Collier is
> superior to them too.   Collier bears about four weeks.

First crop on my young Collier, this year.  Berries were pretty small, not 
all that tasty, and truth be told, I probably shouldn't have even let them 
develop, as I had just transplanted it from the nursery bed where I grafted 
it last year.  Glad to hear that it's that tasty; hope subsequent crops 
here turn out that way..  If it's better than IE, it's GOOD!!!

Lucky