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[Craig Evankoe <CEvanko@civconinc.com>]

I bought Nikita's Gift from One Green World in '09.  It was at least 3 years 
old.  Last year I got my first persimmon.  Oh, happy day!. 2 years ago I had 
flowers but they dropped without developing fruit.  I am 30 miles west of 
Chicago which has been reclassified as 5b.  2 years ago we were having some 
severe weather in January in the negative numbers so I covered it with a 
large plastic bag for about 2 weeks.  There has been no die-back but the 
severe weather may be the cause of the flower drop.

Craig
Lemont, Illinois