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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

Lucky

  Now my Wellington is all the opposites of Lucky's (Is one of them not it) It has more and bigger berries than I.E. great growth habit Have never had any dieback here  etc.  Why ??????

Pakistan would not survive in Zone 5 anyway it is big and near 2 inch long fruit I understand.

Gordon C. Nofs

Flint, MI.

From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulberry
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:53:14 -0500

At 09:03 AM 7/15/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I havent heard anything about this "Packy" and
>Stearns. Could you share some more details?

Rob,
Packy is a mulberry that, if I recall correctly - and Gordon can correct if I'm wrong - Gordon received or purchased as 'Pakistan', but it wasn't; fruited for me for the first time last year, and I wasn't all that impressed with the fruit flavor, but this year it was very good - berries not as long as Illinois, but more plump, and with a good sweet/tart balance.

Stearns, I got from a fellow nut/fruit enthusiast in NJ - it is, I presume, a M.albaXrubra hybrid, like Illinois Everbearing. Berries are similar to IE in size and flavor. Other than that I don't know or recall anything more about it.

I meant to comment on Wellington(or at least the tree was purchased as Wellington). Not a keeper for me. It's been in the ground for at least 6 or 7 years, has a very trashy, unkempt growth habit - I can't make it be a single-trunked tree. Experiences lots of winter dieback every year, and produced just a few small, dry, not-so-flavorful berries this year. Something else will be growing in its spot pretty soon.

Lucky

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