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[Geoffrey Tolle <Gtolle0709@wowway.com>]

Dr. Reich:

     I hadn't even thought of your book. I'll read the whole chapter. 
Thanks!

On 6/3/12 6:01 AM, Lee Reich wrote:
> Quoting from my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, which includes a whole 
> chapter on mulberry:
>
>              Mulberry trees are either dioecious or monoecious, and sometimes 
> a tree even will change from one sex to another. High temperatures, strong 
> light, and long days favor maleness in mulberries, with their opposites, as 
> well as high humidity, bringing out female flowers. (What can we 
> anthropomorphize from this?) Flowers appear in axillary positions on current 
> season’s shoots and on spurs on older wood. Pollination is not usually a 
> problem, because mulberries are wind-pollinated, and some plants---the 
> cultivars ‘Illinois Everbearing’ and ‘Hicks’, for example---will set fruit 
> without any pollination whatsoever.
>
> Lee Reich, PhD
> Come visit my farmden at http://leereich.blogspot.com/
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