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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

That's stolonifera & arborea.  Aren't the cropping cultivars alnifolia?  

There was an article about amelanchiers in a pre-internet 'Pomona' which had 
most of
a page devoted to a list of known species. 

Hey Muffy, do I remember correctly that your soil is silt rather than sand?


--- mark wessel wrote:
> Tanis,
>   I doubt that soil on the acidic side is your problem. In fact i think most
> prefer a slighty acidic soil. I have seen Amelanchier stolonifera growing on
> sandy,peaty tidal plane in Maine. Also, here in Southern ohio, one of our
> natives A. arborea grows on acid shale ridgetops.
> 
> Mark
> southern ohio
> 
>


                
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