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[mIEKAL <dtv@mwt.net>]

> DocKW@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Although I know of people claiming to have chestnuts in Maine, I believe 
> > they
> > have microclimates that allow these to survive in this northerly climate;
> > perhaps they are coastal.  In my reading I believe the native American
> > Chestnut was growing as far north as northern Massachusetts.

there is a native stand of chestnuts unaffected by the blight, in the 
experimental forest outside of LaCrosse, WI....  without a doubt we are hard
core zone 4.  I still havent wandered over there to see them, shame on me.  
mIEKAL


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