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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

Thank you Lee,

I should have mentioned your work as well. I often suggest your book to people I meet.  I guess what I ment was that I was just looking for more detailed information. Genetics, training, attempts hybridization and such.

Though I find I really need to re-read your book because so of the information I am looking for in this fruit and others are touched on.

If you ever decide to to do another addition of this book for the advanced explorer (I say this while trying not to laugh at myself) you have a buyer in Atlanta!

Robert


Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com> wrote:

My book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden has a whole chapter on mulberry. The book also has a list of varieties and mail order nursery sources.

Lee Reich, PhD

http://leereich.com/

Books by Lee Reich:

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

On Feb 2, 2008, at 7:15 AM, rob hamilton wrote:

You know it puzzles me that mulberries are one of the few fruits that I can not find much real information on.  One would think there would be at least book out (besides the one I found that someone posted about mulberries for the silkworm industry in Japan) about mulberries that would speak exhaustively about varieties and culture.  I know they are grown commercially in western Asia.

Am I missing something.  Anyone have resource?

Robert

Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com> wrote:

Thank you for the info. We were on a hiking trip and stopped under
the tree for about 10 minutes. The guide called the tree a black
mulberry. I was too tired to pay it much attention. I wish I could
grow a mulberry tree on the Canadian border.

---- Original Message ----
From: Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mulberry
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:14:25 -0600

>Ernest, I know that M. rubra, the native red mulberry, grows
>naturally
>along many of the streams in eastern and central Kansas.
>
>M. alba, the Russian or Tartarian mulberry, is used extensively in
>shelterbelts and windbreaks throughout the state. However, birds
>have
>scattered the seed so that it is commonly seen in alley ways, in
>ditches
>and along roads as well as in uncultivated and ungrazed areas
>throughout
>much of the state.
>
>As someone else pointed out, M. rubra, M. alba and the hybrid all can
>produce black fruit. Depending on the tree, M. alba produces fruit
>that
>ranges from a creamy white to pink to rosy red to black. It was one
>of
>the few fruits that we had on our farm in west-central Kansas (near
>Hays). Mom made jam and pies from the Russian mulberries, often
>mixing
>them with rhubarb. We also ate them fresh as a dessert with thick,
>sweet cream and sprinkled with sugar. I made homemade wine. But
>most
>of the fruit our trees produced probably went down the hatch when we
>were picking them for her. Many of our neighbors did not have
>mulberry
>trees, so they'd pick them at our place. Those Volga German ladies
>also
>used them in Kuchen and in Maultaschen, a filled pasta similar to
>sweet
>vareniki or pierogi. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ernest Plutko
>Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:29 PM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mulberry
>
>
>Mulberry tree was growing about 30 miles west of Leavenworth, Kansas,
>Fruit was black and red, long and tasty. The reason I called it a
>black
>mulberry because I was told that when I was eating them. I can't
>recall
>the shape of the leaves but the tree was large. It was the only
>mulberry tree I saw there.
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mulberry
>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:09 -0600
>
>>Ernest, I may be mistaken, but I don't think black mulberries (M.
>>nigra)
>>are winter hardy in Kansas. The black mulberries you picked in
>Kansas
>>were most likely (M. rubra, M. alba or a hybrid of the two). Where
>>was
>>this black mulberry tree growing and what makes you think it was M.
>>nigra? -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>>[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ernest Plutko
>>Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:46 AM
>>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>>Subject: [NAFEX] mulberry
>>
>>
>>Jim Fruth writes that he grows mulberries in Pequot Lakes,
>Minnesota.
>>What variety of mulberry do you grow, Jim? I saw a few red
>mulberry
>>trees growing on and around the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.
>
>>Saw a few white mulberry seedlings growing in Minneapolis. Picked
>>black mulberries a few years ago in Kansas and thought they tasted
>>good. Never thought they would grow in zone 3a. Jim, you are not
>far
>>from Brainerd what zone are you in, 3b or 4?
>>
>>
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