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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

    I've been wondering why some of my elderberry canes die.  On close inspection of wilted new growth, I've discovered the identical tell-tale girdling that I see on raspberry canes except that it is too early in the year for raspberry primocanes to begin growing. 

 

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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