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Friday, May 15, 2020
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jimp
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Allentown, PA
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This, my Giant Pumpkin Growing Friends, is a real Native American Chestnut seedling, supplied as a germinated seed from NY Chapter of the Amer Chestnut Foundation, of which I am a member ($40 membership entitles you to next year‘s germinated seed distribution). This is not a blight resistant seed – that is, does not tolerate the oxalic acid secreted by the American Chestnut blight fungus and will wither and die sometime during first 2-15 years of life. But the hope is that enough of these seedlings can be planted in small coves by Foundation members and are ready for the transgenic blight resistant trees nearing release next year. Millions of these young native American Chestnut trees are already growing in back yards, tree farms, public parks, golf courses and research centers around America. The Foundation will supply these resistant seedlings to those who have already started groves to cross pollinate and start the process of natural selection of a blight tolerant American Chestnut tree to repopulate the forests of our country, as was the case a hundred years ago. This once magnificent tree accounted for 25% of the growth in mid-Atlantic and northern hardwood forests and usually the tallest trees, by far, to be seen by those fortunate to gaze across such a canopy. Consider joining a chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation and join the effort to repopulate our forests with this magnificent tree. chestnut@acf.org
Just sayin’
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