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["Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>]

Happy New Year to you all.

About 15 years ago I purchased plants of Adams, Johns, York and Nova of
the S. canadensis cultivars and planted them on a friend's farm in
Wisconsin (in USDA Zone 4a or 3b).  They produced so well in that
location that my friends dug up and transplanted suckers of the plants
when they purchased a larger farm.  I have no experience, however, with
the European elder.

For those interested in elderberries, Paul Evans Library of Fruit
Science at Southwest Missouri State University has an excellent page
listing Elderberry Resources and Bibliography, with some documents in
Adobe Acrobat ready for downloading.  See
http://wwwlibrary.smsu.edu/paulevans/Fruit/elderberry.shtml. -- Sam
Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn. (USDA Zone 4b)

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fruth
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:13 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Zone 3 Elderberry


    Several years ago, I bought some Black Elderberry, wondering how
well it would do here in North Central Minnesota.  It thrived, so I
bought more.  It also thrived but proved to be different than the first
plants  It's growth habit was slightly different and its berries failed
to ripen until very late in Fall with many freezing before they got
ripe.
    I bought all plants from the same company and assumed they to all be
alike.  Wrong!  So I looked up Sambucus in Britton & Brown.  As it turns
out, my second batch of plants are Sambucus nigra, a European
introduction and the first ones, those that are best suited for my
climate, are Sambucus canadensis.

Jim Fruth
Pequot Lakes, MN

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