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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Martha L. Davis wrote, "................but wanted Marion, Boysen or Logan. 
The problem with Marion (and I suspect the rest of them) is that the Chicago 
area doesn't get consistent snow cover.  The roots are hardy, but since they 
bear on second year canes it is a rare year that you get fruit.  However you 
get the full effect of a thorny tangle of canes.  Under those conditions I'd 
rather have a high quality mulberry."

   My Boysenberry grows entirely prostrate/horizontal.  I have to tell 
visitors to watch where they step because the vines go unseen.  That's a 
real advantage because they need almost no snow cover for winter protection. 
Come Spring, I just pull them out of wherever they are hiding and trellis 
them.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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