"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson" wrote in
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I apologise if this comes up twice but I sent a mail and it seems to
have disappeared.

I am thinking of planting a cherry tree but wondered whether any
cherries are so likely to be stripped by birds that there is little
point.

Yes. It is far more economical in time, money and temper to buy cherries at
a supermarket, unless you specifically grow them for the delectation of the
birds, as we did.

Franz