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Re: Tree Tubes

Something very strange is going on.  I wrote and sent to Medit-Plants
this morning a message asking about tree tubes (they were mentioned in 
yesterday's Medit-Plants Digest).

Tonight I find two messages (from Bobby Ward and Mark Speakman, both 
reproduced below) telling me my message was BLANK, but I find another 
private message from Sue Templeton answering the question.  I did not 
write Sue privately.

So why did one person on Medit-Plants get my message while two other 
people got a blank message?

My original message follows Bobby Ward's query below (thanks, Bobby and 
Mark, for letting me know what happened), and Sue's reply to it follows 
that (all below):

From: "Mark Speakman" <markspkn@iol.ie>
To: <harryd@CapAccess.org>
Subject: Re: Tree Tubes
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 17:32:41 +0100

Hi Harry,
No message ?
Mark

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> From: Harry Dewey <harryd@CapAccess.org>
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Tree Tubes
> Date: 06 July 1997 13:00
> 

Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 08:04:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bobby Ward <biblio@pagesz.net>
To: Harry Dewey <harryd@CapAccess.org>
Subject: No Message


Harry, you just beeped on medit-plants on tree tubes; no message was
included--at least not on my copy?

Bobby Ward, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, USDA Zone 7.
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can
walk undisturbed." ("Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun," by Walt Whitman)


Here is the message of which a copy is sitting in my "sent-mail" file:
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 08:00:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry Dewey <harryd@CapAccess.org>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Tree Tubes

Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii
Content-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91-FP.970706073907.15550C@cap1.capaccess.org>

On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 Medit-plants Digest included a message headed: 
> 
>   1) Fwd: pawpaw
> 	by MrnLibn@aol.com

I'm sorry to be unable to quote (for technical reasons) even a line from the 
message, but in it MrnLibn mentioned growing pawpaws under shade cloth or 
in tree tubes.

I cannot recall ever having heard of tree tubes before, and while my 
imagination is able to conjure up several possible scenarios, I would 
appreciate a description of what they are ACTUALLY like and what their 
function is.  I suppose they keep young trees from flopping over, or 
protect the leaves from too much sun and/or predators.

I presume they're sold in nurseries, and I shall inquire the next time I 
go to Behnke's, a few blocks away.  Meanwhile, I'm dying of curiosity.  
The more I think about them, the more I wonder!  Do they come in both 
gasoline- and electric-powered forms?  I think I would rather have a 
battery-powered one; perhaps I can even hope for a manual model.  Help!

Harry, who sometimes gets carried away by new-fangled thingumabobs, but 
who nevertheless is posing a serious question here.

PS:
Harry also wonders why Medit-Plants is the only list he receives that, 
when "replied" to, treats the contents of the message being replied to as 
an attachment, rather than as a part of his reply.  If the list could be 
reconfigured to permit the latter, it would be much easier for responders 
to quote a part of the message being replied to.


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And here is the reply I got from Sue Templeton, which proves that SOME 
PEOPLE on Medit-Plants didn't get a blank!

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Sue Templeton 
wrote:

> Tree tubes in Australia are a long thin pot about 3cm square by about 12cm
> long - my guesses at measurement might be quite wrong but roughly so.   They
> need a special holder to keep them in as they fall over so easily, otherwise
> stacked tight in a box.   They think they are better esp. for eucalypts to
> give them a longer root run.
> 
> My medit-plants messages are able to be replied to the same as alpine-l's.
> Are you on a Mac?  I am on IBM.   I think maybe ASCII is Mac?  
> 
> Regards,  Sue
> 
> 
> 

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