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Re: Fw: shagbark, a very American tree:hickory or juniper or...?
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Dear List,
I had taken Stadlen's comment: "Surely shagbark hickory is not shagbark juniper?" as a joke concerning my former mistake, when I exchanged the word "hickory" for "juniper". Actually, there is a shagbark juniper ( Juniper osteosperma)and it grows in the Southwest, mainly in Utah.
Its size would be a better option to fit in Shade's garden and it might even hold a swing. The hickory tree may grow to 40 meters and its horizontal branch is high up, anteceded by hanging boughs that would have to be pruned; the shagbark juniper never grows over 9 meters.
I still think there might be better options among shagbark trees, once we forget Kinbote's description of it as a "hickory" .
It would be too ironical, the ghost of a Kinbotean joke, if Shade's shagbark happened to be a "Juniper utana" as I mistakenly had initially thought it would be.
Jansy
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I had taken Stadlen's comment: "Surely shagbark hickory is not shagbark juniper?" as a joke concerning my former mistake, when I exchanged the word "hickory" for "juniper". Actually, there is a shagbark juniper ( Juniper osteosperma)and it grows in the Southwest, mainly in Utah.
Its size would be a better option to fit in Shade's garden and it might even hold a swing. The hickory tree may grow to 40 meters and its horizontal branch is high up, anteceded by hanging boughs that would have to be pruned; the shagbark juniper never grows over 9 meters.
I still think there might be better options among shagbark trees, once we forget Kinbote's description of it as a "hickory" .
It would be too ironical, the ghost of a Kinbotean joke, if Shade's shagbark happened to be a "Juniper utana" as I mistakenly had initially thought it would be.
Jansy
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