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To: Augie
Now that I've gotten my chestnut orchard fairly well established

Chinese or European?

726 posted on 07/26/2025 2:17:10 PM PDT by Pollard (Sick of the weather? Wait a minute.)
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To: Pollard; Pete from Shawnee Mission
Chinese or European?

Dunstan. It's an American/Chinese hybrid. Supposed to be 15/16 American genetics but I wouldn't bet the house on that. They're not well thought of in the chestnut restoration community, but I'm not trying to save the world so that doesn't much matter to me.

I just want some fresh chestnuts to eat, and it's hard to buy good ones in the store. All I can ever find for sale around here are European and they're always stale and half dried up.

I have quite a few native persimmon trees on my property so no need to buy any. Mrs. Augie loves those things but I'm not crazy about them. I expect they would be very good in sweet rolls or bread but separating the flesh from the seeds and skin is a lot of work so we don't bother.

765 posted on 07/28/2025 7:44:59 AM PDT by Augie
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