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

mIEKAL wrote, "All, I know is I planted 4-5 Washington Hawthornes about 15 
years ago & have never seen any fruit on them tho the trees themselves seem 
healthy & full grown."


   Whenever anyone asks me a similar question about their trees, I 
recommend either or both of two procedures:  Do you fertilize your tree? 
Fertilized trees may not bear fruit until their available nitrogen is 
reduced to that which comes with rain.  If excess nitrogen is not the 
problem, use a spade to cut a slit in the ground all the way around the 
drip-line - I don't know why this works but folks have had positive results 
by doing it.

Jim Fruth
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472