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["Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>]

Hans,  Thank you for your offer of sorbus, but of course it would be too 
difficult to legally import it.  I did ask Hidden Springs Nursery about 
Sorbus, they are about 50 miles north of us, and they said it did very 
poorly there, too much humidity and disease.  This was followed by the 
comment that they didn't carry plums because they got too much black knot 
disease.  I never get black knot where we are, they are down in a hole and 
don't get the breezes that we get.  So I'll have to ask around some more to 
see if anyone else has them growing.  I remember how lovely the Rowan trees 
were in England, and never imagined I could graft them onto pear rootstock. 
Donna