Our Orchard Manager, Ron Kuipers, is shown here pollinating the Curtis Tree, a recently discovered American chestnut. Please visit our Photo Gallery page to see more photos.
Maryland Chapter Annual Meeting - October 9th, 1 PM, at the Izaak Walton League Headquarters in Gaithersburg.
TACF Annual Fall Meeting - Oct. 15 – 17, - Shepherdstown, WV
An excerpt from the President's Spring Report to the Board:
"Pollination – There seemed to be an unusually wide variation in the time of maturing of the flowers and pollen among the chestnut trees this year. Ron bagged flowers on the Haines tree (because it is pollinated by a nearby Chinese tree). Two of the other trees that we pollinated...... "
To read more of this report download the Spring Report.
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