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["Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>]

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Funny thing is, that I have a Henry Lauder's Walking Stick bought 
from a nursery ~8 years ago.  It's rootstock, a normal filbert of 
some type Suckers like MAD.  I'd prefer Suckers that were "walking 
stick".

If I wanted to root Filbert cuttings, what time of year, etc, are 
best for rooting?

Thanks,

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6


--- In nafex@egroups.com, "dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@i...> wrote:
> Sam,
> 
> I want to make the corkscrew hazel nut (of Harry Lauder's walking 
stick fame).
> It's an ornamental and all the branches corkscrew up so it is hard 
to get a
> straight piece and if grown from cuttings it is very bad at 
suckering.
> 
> You do get hazelnuts on the corkscrew hazelnut, but the squirrels 
get them all.
> 
> In fact, I stopped growing hazelnuts because the beaver kept 
reducing them to
> stumps ... every stem was chewed off at about 16" (I had tree 
guards that came up
> 16").
> 
> I had a young walnut tree nearby with a low branch (about 12" off 
ground) so I put
> a tree guard on the trunk and on the low branch.  The beaver 
reached up and the
> tree guard pushed back towards the trunk of the walnut tree and she 
chewed off the
> branch at about 12"!!
> 
> Luckily my orchard is two gates away from the creek so she doesn't 
come after my
> apple trees.
> 
> Derry
> 
> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase  email:wchase@i...
> Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
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> : I don't know why you want to graft filberts.
> : They seem to root very readily from cuttings here in Oregon.
> : Sam