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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 03:30 AM 9/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> Is it worth pointing out that all those trees would most probably be dead 
> now, and the fellow should be looking for successive grafted & budded trees ?

There was one surviving tree, in Ohio, I think, that they had pretty 
conclusively documented to have been one of the last trees John Chapman 
planted - a 'Rambo' type.  I've seen grafted selections of it offered from 
various places - Stark Bros, American Forests, etc.

http://www.historictrees.org/TreeDirectory/Treeinfo.asp?TK=2500

The site linked above refers to the "special" T-budding process used to 
clone this Johnny Tree, and they advise you two buy TWO of them to insure 
good crops.  Hmm.  Guess they don't really understand about 
cross-pollination, or they just want to sell more trees.  And who wouldn't, 
at nearly $45 per tree, plus shipping!?!