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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> It seems odd to me to hear of anyone actually planting mulberry 
> trees.  Here they are a weed and come up everywhere.  If you want 
> some, come and dig them up.


You're politer than most people I know when they hear I've planted 
mulberry trees! Heh, heh. Yeah, they grow like weeds here, too, but 
until they start bearing fruit, you never know what they'll taste like. 
I'd be happy with any good-tasting mulberry, but many of the volunteer 
trees just don't have good berries (also, some of them are real small). 
And I don't know how you tell that while the trees are still small 
enough to transplant.

I just want enough mulberries to eat,... and perhaps to lure wildlife 
away from some of my other fruit (though I'm not really counting on that).

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is 
possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if 
it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs 
exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is 
that it is a petrol engine. - Richard Dawkins