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

Dr. Charles Spurgeon penned an article some time back - don't recall if it
was printed in the NNGA annual proceedings or in the quarterly NNGA Nutshell
newsletter - detailing some of his 25+ years of experiences with some of the
butternutXJapanese walnut and butternutXheartnut hybrids he'd grown.  
As mIEKAL's experience shows, resistance varied and was not a 'given' just
because of a plant having J.ailantifolia as a parent - whether it was the
species or a heartnut.

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Resistant butternut

I have maybe 20 buartnuts planted & over the years I've lost 3 of them
to canker, so the cross does not guarantee resistance.  But then again
every native butternut on our various properties died years ago....

~mIEKAL