[MassChestnutOrchards] stand of chestnuts found in Glocester RI

[Federowicz, Yvonne Marie]

Thanks for the excellent pictures, Roy, looks like an interesting tree. Can we get a few leaves to Kendra to ID?  It doesn't immediately strike me as Chinese though it's hard to tell. Perhaps it's American, that would be nice.



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From: masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org on behalf of Roy
Sent: Wed 9/16/2009 10:04 PM
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Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] stand of chestnuts found in Glocester RI
 
On Tuesday I stopped by Ray Cataldo's new apple orchard on Reynolds Rd (Route 94) in Glocester RI to see how the apple crop was doing. Ray's orchard is about a mile north from our chestnut tree nursery, and on the same road. I hadn't seen Ray in a year when we then talked about the work I was doing on the chestnut nursery. Ray's orchard is about 100 yards from the West Glocester elementary school that had a few chestnut trees on which Yvonne pollinated/bagged some nuts this spring.

While I was picking some apples, Ray pointed out some trees over his deer fence. He has several chestnut trees, and one pretty darn heavy with nuts. Seems that once he began clearing the land for the apple orchard, the chestnuts on the edge of the orchard got southern sun exposure and sprouted like weeds.

As I pointed out to Kendra and Yvonne a few months ago, the American Chestnut trees are very common in my neighborhood. You find them along the road and in the woods, but rarely with nuts, and usually with blight.

Ray said he is very supportive of our work, and we are welcome to come to his apple orchard and do what we want with the chestnuts. The tree in the photo is about 15~20 ft tall.

Roy Najecki
Glocester RI orchard manager

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