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

At 09:41 PM 10/29/2003 +0000, Tanis wrote:
> But don't all the horrors listed in this posting happen in this country 
> too ?

Sure they do, and it's not just with fruiting/edible plants.

For the last few years, here in my little town, I've been noticing a 
burgeoning epidemic consisting of a double-whammy of bacterial leaf scorch 
and heavy infestation of gouty & horny stem/branch galls on pin oaks that 
are fairly quickly taking out large number of these trees in street & 
residential plantings.
Pin oak(Q.palustris) is a nurseryman's dream - easy to grow from readily 
available acorns, grows & calipers rapidly, transplants readily as a fairly 
large specimen, and has consumer recognition.  But, when EVERYONE plants 
one in the yard, and the cities use them almost exclusively as their street 
tree selection, they've set the stage for virtually unhindered spread of 
one or more potential pathogens throughout the population.

Lucky