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2005-05-26 Home Front: Economy

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-26 00:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Where can one purchase some of these. I'd like to add a few to the property? They grow well here in Tennessee.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-26 06:01|| 2005-05-26 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 I had a cousin die of the Dutch Elm disease. The family still won't talk about it.

Posted by Walter Mitty 2005-05-26 07:09|| 2005-05-26 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I searched the website, Brother Bunny, but can't find that the blight resistant trees are for sale yet. And they're sold out of regular survivor seedlings for this year. But in the meantime, you can get a disease resistant American Elm The NYT had an article naming some suppliers a few years ago, and the Princeton variety may be available at the better garden shops in your area.

Hope that helps!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-26 07:49|| 2005-05-26 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 The town back in Mass where I grew up had rows of huge elm trees lining the streets and parks. I remember the Dutch Elm disease going through and killing them all. Glad to see they finally have figured out a way to replace them.

Posted by Steve ">Steve 2005-05-26 08:30|| 2005-05-26 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Found the website... http://www.acf.org/ ...gonna preorder some for the fall planting. Thanks for the article, I didn't know they had developed a resistant strain. I did hear a few years ago of the discovery of old growth in the North Carolina Smokies that had survived. These must have been the foundation for the new seedlings.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-26 09:04|| 2005-05-26 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 It would be wonderful to see more of these beautiful trees once again.

Posted by Tkat 2005-05-26 09:30|| 2005-05-26 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 This is a great achievement--there are way too few of these left in Appalachia. Time for the comeback!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-05-26 10:27|| 2005-05-26 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 a lady a few blocks away has a old chestnut tree still alive...

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-26 11:53|| 2005-05-26 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 BrerRabbitt:

It seems that the site you cited does not have blight-resistant seedlings, only "pure" ones.

Unless they buried the info about getting blight-resistant seedlings on some other page.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2005-05-26 12:08|| 2005-05-26 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 There are isolated stands of chestnut trees scattered around the country that for one reason or another proved to be resistant to blight. But a lot of the chestnut trees that supposedly died off and were cut down continue to grow from their roots which IIRC are ressitant ot the blight. But hte new growth does not last and soon dies off. Of course the more radical enviro whack jobs will decry this as human meddling

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-05-26 13:23|| 2005-05-26 13:23|| Front Page Top

#11 [The chestnut} can also absorb carbons released into the air by fuel-fired plants in the Midwest, he said.

Absorbing carbon dioxide isn't exactly a distinctive characteristic of chestnut trees. A little biased, but I like a man who's excited about his work.

Posted by VAMark 2005-05-26 14:14|| 2005-05-26 14:14|| Front Page Top

#12 there were chestnut trees growing fine on the block in Brooklyn where I grew up. My understanding is that they were sufficiently isolated from other trees (this being Brooklyn, after all) that they werent exposed to the blight.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-26 14:18|| 2005-05-26 14:18|| Front Page Top

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