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["Doc Lisenby" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>]

I mentioned several years ago about finding plenty of Sparkleberry 
trees/shrubs on my property which although locals recite eating them by the 
handful in the forties and fifties, I haven't seen a berry here although 
they do bloom.   I bought a piece of property seventeen miles WNW of here 
and was surprised to find Sparkleberries growing and bearing plenty of 
berries in a small patch.
Ironically I live right on the USDA Hardiness Zone line between 7b and 8a. 
The producing shrubs are in 7b and the non-producing shrubs are in 8a.  I am 
doubtful that this is the reason but it is something which defies any 
logical explanation I can think of other than herbicide or pesticide use 
locally.
Doc Lisenby