[AT] Subject: Re: Portland Info/ash trees

[charlie hill]

When I was a kid there were little bushes around here that we called 
Chinquapins.  They were usually no more than shoulder high and had a little 
nut on them.  Since there were no real Chestnut trees around here I never 
made the connection between the two.  As I got older and stopped playing in 
the woods I stopped paying attention to them.  Then after a number of years 
I started to look for them but have never seen one since.  Later on I 
realized they probably were some sort of Chestnut  and I guess they are all 
gone now.

Charlie
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>
> Other trees.
> I remember the chinquapin and chestnut tree blight that came through the
> Ozarks region in NW Arkansas
> in about 1950 or so?.   It seemed to have got all the  chinquapins.Only a 
> few
> chestnuts in secluded valleys survived.   Some  time afterward I started
> seeing chinquapin sprouts coming up from the roots of  the dead trees.  I 
> thought
> maybe they were saved after all, but the sprouts  would only grow for a 
> couple
> of years or so and then die.  It could be my  memory has magnified things 
> a
> little but I can't recall a nut of any variety as  sweet and tasty as the
> chinquapin.  Toward the end of the nut season the  squirrels would clean 
> up the
> last of them from up in the trees.  My brother  and I would throw rocks at 
> them
> hoping to drive them off but they just dodged a  little and continued
> harvesting the nuts.  A nut worth risking their life  for.  The chinquapin 
> fence post
> was good for 20 years in the ground before  it started to rot.  Dad mostly 
> used
> oak however. I think he believed the  chinquapin ought to be saved.   My
> brother and I did all the fencing  and fence posts replacement anyway so 
> it wasn't
> costing him any labor.  The  oak posts were only good for seven years in 
> the
> ground before rot set in.   I tried several time to get him to use the
> chinquapin but he never would.
> We seldom think about how much something will be missed until it it's 
> gone.
> Possible exception being the Eidsel.
> Claude
> Tontitown, Arkansas
>
>
>
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