GeneDaniels,
Thanks for the reply.


Pino,
You're welcome.
It works the same just with the individuals initials, ie Marseilles Black VS and Adriatic JH.
I'm only using the existing info gleaned from the site and personally I just use the known English names. 

The Italian Black I got from Tim is really putting out growth this year (started winter '13-'14). It has a reddish-purple stems (atleast on new growth). It this typical of the Becnel? 

Thanks
Rick

My Italian Black was inground all winter and is not looking too good right now. I covered it with a big plastic trashcan all winter, but still it looks dead and is not showing any growth (we had lows of 4 or 5F at couple nights)

But I did take cuttings just in case and I am rooting them now in case I need backup.