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["kieran or donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>]

We used to rent a house that had a huge M. alba that made mostly male flowers but also set small fruit.  Not as heavy a crop as the female trees tend to make though.  I haven't seen this kind of thing with the native trees, and I assume Jim is NOT growing alba.  (unless some of the Russian ones Gurneys used to sell are really hardy?)  They really get whacked by freezes now and then even here.    Donna