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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

There is a clone of butternut called "Iroquois" from Eastern Ontario 
which is reported to have some resistance to butternut canker. I don't 
knoiw anything about the details.

"Iroquois" is propagated and sold by Grimo Nut Nursery in the Niagara 
Peninsula:
http://www.grimonut.com

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada



On 30/04/2011 10:22 PM, Steven Covacci wrote:
> Group:
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> I bought a vigorous butternut/white walnut seedling today.  I just read up on 
> the disease susceptibility in white walnut.  There is a 300+ historic white 
> walnut that near me.  It looks in good shape, although has a large cavity in 
> it's trunk at the base, but still doing well.  Does this mean that this is a 
> tree of unusual disease-resistance?
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> Should I graft a disease-resistant scion/cultivar unto it?
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> Are there disease-resistant clones?
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> Thanks,
> Steve NJ 7a