sergnic - what part of Italy are you living in? Are you in the city or out in a rural area? I see mentioned in, "your page" that you are a botanist. I am very interested in more input from you concerning the types of figs grown in different parts of Italy. I have been there quite a few times. Many in the spring of the year when the figs where not ready to eat. I had to fill up on the Nespoli. My family has a farm in the Cilento, Campania area just south of Palinuro a sea coast town called Marina di Camerota, Italy. There are many different type of figs and other fruit growing there. This year we are planning a September trip. I should be able to get my fill of ripe figs during this seasion. I plan to ask what the names of the trees are take photos of them and also have a notebook to write down what my relatives tell me about the figs and other type fruit trees they are growing. My one uncle even has some sort of banana tree growing in his yard. How I wish I could take along home with me just small rooted trees of all sorts. Living in northeastern Pennsylvania Zone 5 makes it a bit rough but I still would like to try other trees I have seen growing there. I know other people using this forum would feel that way as welI. I have seen what some people have told me was a grape vine that they called a, "strawberry grape". Are you familiar with that type of fruit? I will be looking forward to whatever you can contribute concerning the questions I posed to you. Regards and thank you Tanti saluti Lou NE., PA

deep roots, posting pictures is really easy. Go to Photobucket.com and set up an album or several albums. Then you just upload your pics to the photobucket site. Each image will have three useful things; URL TAG IMG copy and paste the 'URL' into any email and people can use the link to see your image. copy and past the 'TAG' into a posting (within the text) on the OG forum and your picture will turn up in the post. If you like you can go to my photobucket site and have a look at how I've set mine up. (instructions are for photobucket but, you can use any other image hosting site or even your own web space) AND on the hardiness site I would imagine that contributions of OG's, perennials and woodies would be more than welcome. Good thing for a winter day :o) AND ... it will help get your records in order ~ at least I am hoping that is what it will do for me ... A. Here is a link that might be useful: my photobucket albums

> Maybe someone would like to post a > similar message on the 'Far North' web > site. I would hate to get in trouble > for multiple posts! achnatherum, I don't think you should be in trouble for posting on the FN forum. I report from Alaska so I only visit the FN forums and never knew anything about this government project. Last winter we had very cold ambient (-51F) and also almost record frost penetration in the ground. There were some prunus (species of cherry) as imported from other parts of the world that continue to be invasive, even under these circumstances. eg. European mayday, and North American pin and tart cherry. I don't want to hurt anyones feelings but I am going to contribute information to that project.

Thanks Mando...how about that DW that has been running since 1967 on the farm getting all of that dust and grit? Spraying water all over the outside of a washer and then applying electrical voltage to make sure it is water tight?Of course there will still be some problems but nice to know they are still try to make good products.