Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Triploids are sterile. That is good. The Mississippi is in real
danger of being their conduit to the great lakes!



I will admit that my last geography lesson was over 50 years ago, but
does the Mississippi have a conduit into the Great Lakes? The head
waters are in central Minn, can't be the Missouri, it heads west, the
Ohio goes east. Does the now backward flowing Chicago river enter the
Mississippi?

Chip