Subject: Re: [NAFEX] FW: a real johnny appleseed tree
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:38:49 -0500
At 03:30 AM 9/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:
Is it worth pointing out that all those trees would most probably be dead
now, and the fellow should be looking for successive grafted & budded trees ?
There was one surviving tree, in Ohio, I think, that they had pretty
conclusively documented to have been one of the last trees John Chapman
planted - a 'Rambo' type. I've seen grafted selections of it offered from
various places - Stark Bros, American Forests, etc.
The site linked above refers to the "special" T-budding process used to
clone this Johnny Tree, and they advise you two buy TWO of them to insure
good crops. Hmm. Guess they don't really understand about
cross-pollination, or they just want to sell more trees. And who wouldn't,
at nearly $45 per tree, plus shipping!?!