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

At 07:07 PM 3/20/2005 -0700, you wrote:
> I went to the Carnefix Nursery yesterday and they had the Pakistani
> Mulberry.  I asked if it would do here (zone 6) and they said yes.  Okay.
> So I took a flier on it.  With a local nursery if it does not work they will
> stand behind it.
>
> I am very excited.  No special instructions except not to plant it where you
> or your animals will tend to walk through it.

Naomi,
I've still got that bundle of mulberry cuttings in the fridge - planned on 
trying to get some of my plant materials packaged up and shipped out to you 
and various others today.

Good luck with the Pakistan - if it's true to variety name.  My own 
previous experience with it was that it did not survive my zone 6 
winters.  I'd read an article on mulberries for the Southeast by Dr. AJ 
Bullard, of Mt. Olive, NC, and while he liked Pakistan, he cautioned that 
in its native Islamabad, the lowest temperature it had experienced was 28F, 
so he recommended planting it with the graft union below ground level, so 
that if it winter-killed, it could re-sprout and grow.
Mine, planted in that manner, winter-killed three years in a row, and would 
re-sprout and grow 8-10 ft the following season.  I finally took it out.  I 
have, however, re-grafted it, and several other selections from FL about 6 
ft up in a vigorous young M.albaXrubra hybrid, and the last time I looked 
at them, they looked good - hopefully, they'll fruit for me this year.

LLP