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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:

cd6.29ed1647.352cbb36@aol.com" type="cite">In a message dated 4/8/2008 12:55:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sdw12986@aol.com writes:

I would have to taste  good mulberry before I used up space on one of
those. We had a nice mulberry tree in the yard where I grew up (central
Ohio) and it was always a disappointment.

Hello Scott,

There is a vast difference between mulberry varieties just as in say apples. Many seedlings (all apples were a seedling at one time) aren't worth eating. AJ Bullard spent many years breeding them and has some good selections. So don't base your opinion of mulberry on the (likely) seedling at your childhood home.  My wife and I have spent time comparing random seedlings along road sides. There is a difference.

Good ones make wonderful deserts! Illinois Everbearing is a good one. Bullard's Silk Hope is another.

Jerry
5b 

Hi Jerry,
Not sure who Scott is, but you quoted me. I'm quite sure that some mulberries are better than others because, if not, there wouldn't be much discussion about them here. I believe the mulberry I grew up with was planted because it was perfectly spaced and in line with an apple making a short row exactly parallel to a row of pear trees. That does NOT mean it was a selected variety. It must have been a dug up random seedling. Even knowing that there are better varieties, I would still want to taste some samples to make sure I wanted one in my yard.

Steve