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["Rodney" <reveland@collinscom.net>]

Here's the long answer on cold hardiness in plants:

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/components/6594-04.html

> From reading this I would suspect that the part of the plant that is first
to develop in spring would also be the first to die under adverse
conditions.