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Mark,

There are Chinese chestnuts that fruit at that height.  Google Badgersett
Research Farm in MN.  Mr. Ritter (or Rutter?)breeds hazels and chestnuts.
Check with him to see if he has material of the early fruiting plants
available.  I believe that he's done some breeding with them

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Kobo chestnut


> I ran across a description of a chestnut in Japan that bears nuts very
> early, often when the tree is only 3 feet tall.  Does anyone have any
> more information on this Kobo Chestnut?
> See the information that I found in the text below.
> -Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 8a
> -----------------------------------------------------
> A Japanese Folktale:
> "The Kobo Chestnut Trees"
> In the mountains around Fukiage Pass in Nagura-mura, Kita Shidara-gun,
> grow chestnut trees called Kobo chestnuts. Those trees bear fruit very
> young, even when they are only 3 feet high.
> Hundreds of years ago there was a big chestnut tree on this pass. Boys
> would rush to climb it to pick the chestnuts, but little children could
> not climb the tree. One day while they were weeping, a traveling priest
> passed by, saw the little children crying, and said: "Well, you shall be
> able to pick the chestnuts from next year on."
> The next year every small young chestnut tree bore fruit so that the
> little children could pick them easily. The villagers thought that the
> traveling priest must have been St. Kobo, and since then they have
> called these the Kobo chestnut trees.
>
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