Jerry Crawford
09-28-2003, 2:02 PM
(third time to try this)
I'm looking for a couple of recent hickory nut drops still in the husk. Here's the story.
A couple of years ago I sent a woodworking correspondent friend of mine a new nut drop from a very ancient hickory tree in Westfield, NJ. This tree was probably around when Washington went through escaping from the Brits. Anyway, I sent this nut to Manabe linking it with American history and so forth with instructions how to freeze it for a few months and then pot it inside. He folowed my directions and don't ya know, the darn thing sprouted. Here's a pic he sent me after nurturing this nut for months. He was about as proud as he was when his grand daughter was born.
Eventually the tree was moved outside to to a special spot in his garden, grew all year and apparently survived over the winter OK, bringing out new leaves this past spring. Unhappily, one of those monsoon rains came by and the poor tree didn't survive that. So I'd like to replace the nut with a few more and hopefully his grand or great grand children will enjoy hickory nuts from America.
Drop me a note off line and I'll be happy to pay for any postage. Thanks
Jerry Crawford
acricket at adelphia dot net - where the "at and the "dot" are email symbols
Alfred Maine
I'm looking for a couple of recent hickory nut drops still in the husk. Here's the story.
A couple of years ago I sent a woodworking correspondent friend of mine a new nut drop from a very ancient hickory tree in Westfield, NJ. This tree was probably around when Washington went through escaping from the Brits. Anyway, I sent this nut to Manabe linking it with American history and so forth with instructions how to freeze it for a few months and then pot it inside. He folowed my directions and don't ya know, the darn thing sprouted. Here's a pic he sent me after nurturing this nut for months. He was about as proud as he was when his grand daughter was born.
Eventually the tree was moved outside to to a special spot in his garden, grew all year and apparently survived over the winter OK, bringing out new leaves this past spring. Unhappily, one of those monsoon rains came by and the poor tree didn't survive that. So I'd like to replace the nut with a few more and hopefully his grand or great grand children will enjoy hickory nuts from America.
Drop me a note off line and I'll be happy to pay for any postage. Thanks
Jerry Crawford
acricket at adelphia dot net - where the "at and the "dot" are email symbols
Alfred Maine