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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit trees for timber
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:42:29 -0800

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit trees for timber
Some years ago I got a tree of a variety in a test plot at Oregon State U.  It  was twice as tall as any other tree in the plot and when it was grafted, it grew to 8 feet tall in the nursery row.  It had a trunk big enough to make a decent saw log before it was 20 years old.  The cherries are very good - very large white with red cheek, but picking them is nearly impossible.  If someone wanted to grow a woodlot of these trees, they would be big enough for cabinetry in 15 years with good care.
-Lon Rombough

From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:19:36 -0500
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit trees for timber


Some of the NNGA members in Ontario who are also members of S.O.N.G.
[Society of Ontario Nut Growers] grew black walnut up to 9 feet tall,
then grafted persian/english walnuts at that height.  The proposed
result was to be the straight black walnut bole of 9' [the best part
for boards] and the english walnut crop.  In practice, I think there's
plenty of black walnuts the chain saw jockeys cut down and average size
black walnut aren't so rare.   I haven't heard of this being done with
fruit trees - has anyone else?




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