Updated mailing order: ORDER TO BE SENT: 1. JULIE (ME) TO MARYANNE 2. MARYANNE TO DEE 3. DEE TO CARRIE 4. CARRIE TO DEB 5. DEB TO HEATHER 6. HEATHER TO TYSHEE 7. TYSHEE TO SUMMER 8. SUMMER TO DIANE 9. DIANE TO JULIE A. JULIE A. TO TINA TINA TO SUE SUE TO ME Everyone should have recieved an email from me. I wanted to send you the addresses, but, like I mentioned I am adding labels with the addresses in the order the box is sent to the contents of the box, hopefully to make it easier on all of us. I know how it is digging thru those emails to find the right addy for the right RR. LOL Julie

riverrat1 - this is one of the few places where people could understand someone having a jam collection! That is one delicious sounding package. I'm pretty sure no one else here would appreciate the tangerine marmalade as much as I would. Or the blackberry jam. So if you would be so kind, just put them back in the box, stuff a little newspaper in there (you know, to keep them from breaking - wouldn't want them bouncing around like bb's in a boxcar, now would we?) and ship them on over here. Oh, and I tasted pickled watermelon rind for the first time this past June asn LOVED it. You can put that one in there too, just to balance out the box. Thanks.

tlbean2004, I totally know what you mean, I make some strange posts out of boredom, or wanting a totally new point of view. I agree with the genetics answer, but, I have seen more American hollies with 3-4 trunks than single trunks, but the shape is the same, anyhow. I will mention though, that sometimes trees do seem to take on a different growth pattern, or at least seem to in youth. I have 2 Quercus Robur (English oak) trees I started from seed (acorn) from the same tree. One is short and has wildly growing branches and a "general dissarray" of growth. The other acorn brought forth a tree that is more upright, and nearly 3X the height of the "general dissarray" seedling. This taller tree is very balanced and near perfectly formed oak, shaped tree. In the distant future, maybe they will look more the same, but now there is a real noticable difference. On a funnier comparison, I don't watch the Kardashians, but anyone could notice, nobody but Kim has that kinda tushie. It was a random genetic thing, it coulda came from her great grama, who knows. I don't see any other girls in the family sportin that much junk in the trunk. poaky1

Bob, I posted and you never ackowleded it. That's why I don't take part in your posts anymore. Ha. kiddding)) I m sure there are alot that feel like that though, kidding aside and from what I can see, I agree with Dave too. Sometimes there is favortism, another thing that makes others not want to be a part anymore according to one member that e-mailed me the other day. I have also noticed that there will be a period of time when all we see is dicussions on 'IN-GROUND' planted trees, then at times mostly 'CONTAINERIZED ones. It varies. I would say like the variety of endless soils our trees grow in, so are the reasons that this forum either changes, stays active, slows, or dies out all together. Mike