Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Flicker

I'm not sure to which post the Moose was replying, however, 'Swedish Bikini Team' is always a valid response -IF- accompanied by a picture.

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ORIGINAL: Panther Bait

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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Back on the subject of trees. I am a realtor and love to show older homes in the DC area that have . It is worth stripping the paint off to show it off if you have it.

As for the red oaks and white oaks in our area, we are having serious issues with them. There is red oak decline which is causing many older trees to slowly die but more significant is that the exploding deer population is severely altering our old growth forest. The deer eat all of the young oak seedlings and they are not able to replace themselves. There is a looming disaster coming as a result and our politicians have no clue or don't care. A walk in the woods these days shows that beech trees are ascendant and the undergrowth trees seem to be all holly. The only good news is there is plenty of oak firewood around these days.

It's nice looking wood - Chestnut, especially if stained in a way that brings out it's natural color. Not modern toxic stains, but using "Old School" like a mixture of Linseed oil and beeswax which is nontoxic.

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Chestnut trim on the interior

Can you tell if it's done by hand? I make molding using hand planes.

My parents live in a 1880's New England farmhouse with chesnut woodwork in several places. When they were making some renovations, their carpenter had to do a bunch of work to try different wood and stains to even try to match the chestnut. Came out looking very good.

Mike

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Back on the subject of trees. I am a realtor and love to show older homes in the DC area that have Chestnut trim on the interior. It is worth stripping the paint off to show it off if you have it.

As for the red oaks and white oaks in our area, we are having serious issues with them. There is red oak decline which is causing many older trees to slowly die but more significant is that the exploding deer population is severely altering our old growth forest. The deer eat all of the young oak seedlings and they are not able to replace themselves. There is a looming disaster coming as a result and our politicians have no clue or don't care. A walk in the woods these days shows that beech trees are ascendant and the undergrowth trees seem to be all holly. The only good news is there is plenty of oak firewood around these days.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Dawn redwood has now been widely planted throughout the United States. I've seen them in Athens, Rome, and Armuchee (the little community where I live).

Metasequoia glyptotroboides is one of the most musical and humorous of the taxonomic names for trees. When I speak about trees, on occasion, I mention this name and a few others. Coincidentally, I'm teaching a class at our local college this morning that will cover this topic.

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody
Do you have some sort of GMO gingko tree in the States where the guys in white lab coats took the stink out of the gingko nuts moldering on the sidewalk? Although the trees are indeed cool looking, I can do without the biohazard wafts emanating from all over, even from the soles of my shoes, at this time of year.

Cheers,
CC

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I have never, ever seen the fruit

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Great photo retrospective Dan. I was struck by how many dirt poor children there were, and the little girls in the textile mills were heartbreaking.

At the 43 second mark there is a caption on a photo "This is the boy that laid the bolt that threw 88 ..." . Does that refer to a train derailment or something?

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Great photo retrospective Dan. I was struck by how many dirt poor children there were, and the little girls in the textile mills were heartbreaking.

At the 43 second mark there is a caption on a photo "This is the boy that laid the bolt that threw 88 ..." . Does that refer to a train derailment or something?

The Accused - 1908
THIS IS THE BOY THAT LAID THE BOLT THAT THREW 38
Description: Buford, 1908. Louis Cooksie. Writing at bottom reads, "This is the boy that laid the bolt that threw 38." He thought the train was a fruit train and laid a bolt on the track to throw the train so he could help himself to the fruit. The train was actually carrying troops.
Cite as: Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Division of Archives and History, Office of Secretary of State.
Usage note: Contact repository re: reproduction and usage.
Held by: Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260

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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Back on the subject of trees. I am a realtor and love to show older homes in the DC area that have . It is worth stripping the paint off to show it off if you have it.

As for the red oaks and white oaks in our area, we are having serious issues with them. There is red oak decline which is causing many older trees to slowly die but more significant is that the exploding deer population is severely altering our old growth forest. The deer eat all of the young oak seedlings and they are not able to replace themselves. There is a looming disaster coming as a result and our politicians have no clue or don't care. A walk in the woods these days shows that beech trees are ascendant and the undergrowth trees seem to be all holly. The only good news is there is plenty of oak firewood around these days.

It's nice looking wood - Chestnut, especially if stained in a way that brings out it's natural color. Not modern toxic stains, but using "Old School" like a mixture of Linseed oil and beeswax which is nontoxic.

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Chestnut trim on the interior

Can you tell if it's done by hand? I make molding using hand planes.

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Loka is a bit off in two respects. Pin oak is a red oak. And, strictly speaking, it's not specific to say one has a "red oak" in his yard. There isn't a species called "red oak."

Oaks are divided into two major categories: white oaks and red oaks. Of the red oaks, there must be 25-30 species in the United States, perhaps a dozen or more growing in the eastern USA. The red oaks include southern, northern, scarlet, black, water, willow, laurel, live, Mitchell, pin, blackjack, cherrybark, turkey, shumard, chinquapin oak and chestnut oak species.

The white oak group includes white oak, post oak, swamp white oak, burr, overcup and several others.

Lumbermen do refer to oaks by their major groups. IE, they really don't distinguish between most of the red oaks. For them, the lumber is the same whether from black oak or southern red oak or scarlet oak. To them the wood/lumber is either "red oak" or "white oak."

That's taking it way beyond what anybody might care about, but the precision of botany is interesting (but only to those who love botany, I suppose).

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Growing up there was only two Gingko trees around, every school child had to go to them for their leaf collection books around 4th grade.

Now they are very common. Very popular in Philly, as they don't need trimming much (if at all) and do well in less than ideal circumstances (poor air I have been told). So they line the streets all over and in parking lots. At least that is what I have been told...

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Just to keep the tree convo going, there is an interesting deciduous tree also growing in China (thus the connection to the campaign).

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Mostly see it in homes built in the 20s and 30s. I suspect most of the trim was milled commercially by then. We have quite a few Sears and other kit homes in the region and a lot of them had Chestnut trim. Regrettably, most of it is painted over.