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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [NAFEX} The Big Freeze, and hazels
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:21:49 -0500

Well, if some of you had no other reason to be interested in hazels... I've found small nutlets on our wild plants. Some of these plants cropped in years past before pines and poplars overwhelmed them, the nuts were small, thick shelled, and rather dry and tasteless. Cecil's book talks about the oil content and flavor of hazels, and I'm very fond of hazelnuts, so I know what he's talking about. We've cut the trees that were choking the wild hazels, I figure I can study and experiment on them while I wait for my little Badgersett plants to grow. I can also, (if I feel like doing lots of work) bud the best Badgersetts onto the wild plants.
That brings up the total of trees/shrubs I know that set or held their fruit in spite of the freeze:
Juneberries
Aronia
Thomas Myers black walnut
native plums
blackberries (most of them)
some tame blackberries
black raspberries
native persimmons
late blooms on strawberries
late leafing hickory specimans (pignuts and mockernuts, some leafed early, some late)





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