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> >The forester replied  
> that he had wondered when the trees would be requested; they had been  
> planted by a previous forester a couple hundred years earlier.
> 

A long term investment for the cottager wsa to cut oak trees into pollards 
and then when the young limbs came out, braces them so they made a certain 
type 
of curve to be sold in 100 years as ships ribs.

 If you plant black walnut trees as a loooong term investment for the next 
generation, plant an ash tree alternating witht he black walnut trees.  The 
ash 
is not much affected by juglones and it will grow a little faster and a 
little 
bushier than the walnut forcing the walnut to have a tall straght trunk with 
the first branches very high.  In other words, you are making premo veneer 
log.  When both trees are 25-30 years old, you cut all the ash and let the 
walnuts enclose the canopy.

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"Grandaddy's apples on the mountain side,
Gone, gonna rise again.
He planted the trees just before he died
Gone, gonna rise again.
I guess he knew he'd never see
Red fruit hanging from the tree
But he planted them for his children and me
Gone, gonna rise again."

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