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["Bassem Samaan" <bassem@gardener.com>]

Illinois everbearing bears over a long period, but it doesn't seem to have one large crop all at once, which is good if you only eat a few at a time, bad if you need to pick them all at once. The flavor is good sweet tart balance, fruit is longe, and not as fat as some varieties.

I recently grafted a collier which is suppose to be similar but bears a thicker size fruit. It also bears a larger crop. It was recommended by John Gordon of NY.

I also grow Pakistan here in Pa. It's not as hardy as the others, but I have it grafted 4' high on a wild rootstock. In some years it dies back but it still manage to grow and bears a decent crop. It is very interesting fruit. Its very long,  not as juicy as the others. You can see the photos of it on my website.

I have also collected a mulberry from the wild. It was growing against a building near a park. It was my dad's favorite, due to it's size and it's flavor. I actually prefered it over the Illinois every bearing for it's flavor. The size is above average for wild mulberries. one week after I took cuttings it was chopped off by the building owners. Now it's about 4' tall and has a few mulberries on it.

Another great mulberry I have called Greece. It's a white mulberry that is of a good size, and excellent sweet productive tree.


Thanks,

Bass Samaan

Bethlehem, pa zone 6
http://www.TreesofJoy.com

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mulberries
> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:20 -0500
>
>
>
> > They are impossible for me to keep in a small space but you can keep 
> > them in-bounds by pruning them to a weep and summer pruning them once 
> > a season- removing all vigorous upright growth. They make beautiful 
> > trees managed this way and you keep a lot of fruit in ladderless reach.
>
>
> I've been trying to do that with the Illinois Everbearing Mulberry I 
> still have (half) alive.
>
> But I have another problem with this variety. Since it doesn't bear 
> fruit all at once, but just a little bit all summer, the birds clean 
> them out before they ever get completely ripe. I didn't think of that 
> when I planted this tree. With a normal mulberry - or, at least, the 
> wild ones around here - the berries all come ripe at once, so there are 
> always plenty to eat, even after the birds take their share.
>
> Yeah, I could net the tree, like I have to do with my grapevines, but 
> that's a pain, especially if I had to leave the net up all summer. And 
> the tree grows so vigorously that I'd have to cut the net off at the end 
> of the season. (Not to mention that it's hard to pick berries when the 
> tree is netted.) Yeah, the Illinois Everbearing Mulberry was a definite 
> mistake here, for several reasons.
>
> Bill
> Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
>
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