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["EVelyn Mellott" <e.mellott@xplornet.ca>]

+Sarah,
   I  have had a "Chocolate" Hawthorne for about 25+ years in our yeard. 
Yes it is hardy.  I got it from Bearverlodge Nursery along with a Amur maple 
and a cascade weeping willow also very haqrdy.  The Hawethorne is some years 
just loaded with fruit, some years a lot less....it seems to behave like a 
apple tree as to fruiting some years and not on others.  I have used berries 
with my jellies, grape, crab, currant.  The juice from the berries is 
supposed to be somekind of heart tonic so I was always leary about using to 
much hawthorne berries in my jelly mixtures.  I did not ever just make 
hawthorm jelly for that reason which it may not have the effect as jelly. 
But I did enjoy the jellies that were made with them.
Evelyn
Grassland, Alberta
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