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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

Good call Tanis, I dug up a few today & they are indeed suckers.   
~mIEKAL


On Jun 17, 2006, at 7:43 PM, tanis grif wrote:

> Are you sure they are seedlings?  This spring I removed some small  
> woven-wire deer-
> excluders from separate sask./Amelanchier shrubs (Timm, Success, &  
> unknowns) and
> replaced w/ a larger excluder around the entire patch.  A couple  
> days ago I weeded,
> and noticed what I thought at first were seedlings, but  
> investigation revealed they
> are suckers.  In previous years apparently rabbits had kept these  
> trimmed down, and
> now my deer-excluder-- also a rabbit-excluder-- is allowing them to  
> grow.