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["Bob Kelly" <Bkelly66@bellsouth.net>]

Can someone comment as to how Illinois Everbearing  does in the southeast,
specifically NE Mississippi, zone 7b.  We have lots of seedling mulberries
here, particularly rubra.  I remember a lot of folks used to have alba in
their yard as shade trees.  They did not seem to fruit much here.

Bob Kelly
Aberdeen, MS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulberry Varieties


> I tried Pakistan several years back, and following Dr. Bullard's advice, I
> planted it with the graft union below ground level, in the event that it
> winter-killed; which it did.  Every winter, for 3 or 4 years.  It would
> re-sprout from below the soil line and grow a good 10 ft - kinda like
those
> coppiced Paulownias, but never fruited, except for one year when we had a
> freak freeze in late September, it re-leafed and bloomed but not
> surprisingly, it didn't mature its fruits before the real winter hit.  I
> finally dug it up to replace it with something else - I did stick it in a
5
> gallon pot, but I misplaced it somewhere and never did figure out where it
> went.
>
> With regard to dwarfing, I've seen reference, either here on the list, or
> in POMONA, that trying to 'train' Illinois Everbearing is something akin
to
> trying to train a garden hose.  It is definitely a vigorous grower.  Les
> Wilmoth has a huge one at his house outside of Glendale, KY - I don't know
> how old it is, but it's probably 50-60 ft tall, three main trunks; I don't
> think two men could touch hands trying to reach around it.  I think Les
had
> several others, but they contracted 'popcorn disease' and he took them
out.
>
> Lucky
>
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