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[mIEKAL <dtv@mwt.net>]

If Durand is near Menominee I would call that zone 3, or at least it was zone
3 until the last 10 years or so.  I dont know much about the particular stand
in the experimental forest other than Ive run into it in a number of
references in various literatures.  Why I havent gone & tried to find some
nuts, I dunno.  Its a beautiful woods that's is barely used.

mIEKAL



"Erdman, Jim" wrote:

> There is a chestnut tree in downtown Durand, cold edge of zone 4, (except
> that it is in town not too far from the river) that we have gotten a few
> nuts to plant from in past years.  Most years we aren't lucky enough to get
> there when the nuts are still on the ground.
> Did I read something about blight or other problems in the grove near
> LaCrosse in the last couple of years, or was that another grove in Wis?
>
> Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mIEKAL
> To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: 3/8/02 9:32 AM
> Subject: [nafex] Re: chestnuts
>
> > 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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