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Joe,
I can supply scionwood.
I've got two good M.rubra selections - actually, I've never encountered a 
M.rubra in fruit that wasn't good, but these two, I think, are better than 
the average bear.  
One is a local southern KY native, the other is one I selected on a trip home 
to AL.  Pretty sure the KY selection will work for you up there, but can't 
vouch for the winter-hardiness of the AL selection, though if you high-worked 
it, it might do just fine.
If you're interested in even more genetic diversity, I can put my hands on no 
less than a dozen different M.rubra trees here on the farm and on the way in 
to work, with no difficulty.


Around here, M.alba is everywhere in town - any untended fencerow, roadside 
ditch, flowerbed, etc. is rife with mulberry seedlings, though callery pears 
are making inroads, and may soon surpass M.alba as the predominant non-native 
urban/suburban weed tree - boxelder and hackberry still predominate in the 
native category).  But as you move out toward the city limits, and on out 
into the country, M.rubra still reins.  I see its unmistakable big, dark 
green, sandpapery leaves peeking out from the roadside forest understory, 
mostly on the small county roads, and it's scattered here and there 
throughout the woods on the farm here in KY, as well as back home in AL.

Lucky