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from "Joan Edington" contains these words:

I'm not that good at gardening and especially at identifying species of
anything. We moved into our house nearly 20 years ago and have a fairly
large garden with a wildish bit over the fence at the bottom. There is
a row
of trees there that have simply seemed a nuisance and we constantly cut
back. Mini trees crop up all over the garden that have similar leaves so we
have blamed the rogues at the bottom.
Last year, for the first time, it had a crop of what seemed to be
damsons. I
looked up pictures and all seemed to point to me being right. I made
several
pots of jam which I've yet to try.
This year, no crop again and I'm starting to worry about whether they
really
are damson trees. If they are, it's unusual behaviour to fruit every 20
years?!?!? Not much money in that for growers. If not, what could they be
and is the jam safe to eat? I was looking forward to it.

Probably bullaces, which flower earlier, and thus get frosted, as well
as having less chance of insect pollination.

Otherwise, there's not a lot of difference between bullaces and damsons
- er - except that bullaces are much more prone to suckering...

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Rusty
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