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In a message dated 11/4/2005 11:51:37 AM US Eastern Standard Time, lreich@hvc.rr.com writes:

> Does anyone out there know the pollination needs of buartnut? Are they self-pollinating or do they need another buartnut, a butternut, or a heartnut? A black walnut would work, perhaps?
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> Lee Reich, PhD
>  www.leereich.com
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> Hello Lee,
>
> Missed you at the Slow Foods Brunch in Alexandria, but your books were there. 
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> My experience with buarts is limited, but believe generally many things will pollinate them. Have one there that looks like butternut except the kernels drop out whole like heart nut. Good crop every year and no other Buarts here. Many believed butternuts are really hybrids. Have maybe 30 Buart seedlings growing here, all from the same seed parent, and not one of them is note worthy. Nuts small and trees lack a good central leader.  Most will be visited with the chain saw. 
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> Jerry Lehman
> Indiana zone 5b