Don, Well, you made it sound pretty easy....hope you're right. I'm pretty hopeless...
Yeah, I think you're right about the royal treatment that prize specimen trees get at arboretums. Is there any kind of steroid-type use that is forbidden like in baseball? What if they pump tons of nitrogen into the soil? I guess that's what fertilizer is...no fair! Jenny On Mar 29, 1:39 pm, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]> wrote: > Jenny- > No need to freak...you take your $15 calculator in hand, press the "sine" > button, enter the clinometer reading, press the "X" button, enter the > rangefinder distance, press the "=" button for the first height, repeat the > process for the second height, then add them for the height. It really is > that easy! > Perhaps the excellent treatment that trees get in the arboretums around the > nation has something to do with the number of champion trees that appear in > tree register around the states that have arboretums in their address..? > -Don > > > > > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:12:41 -0700 > > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Champion Big Trees at NYBG? > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > > I will have to get the scoop on that Blue Ash. I don't know who took > > the measurements. I hope I can learn to measure, but I get freaked out > > when I see things like "sine" and "cosine". > > > I would have thought that botanic gardens wouldn't have too many > > champions because the trees grow more laterally since they have space, > > but I guess height isn't the only dimension that is considered. But, > > then again, they are always cutting off the lower branches for > > aesthetic reasons.... > > > Ah! I'm confused! > > > Jenny > > > On Mar 29, 8:59 am, pabigtrees <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jenny > > > > Botanic Gardens are havens for champion trees. In pennsylvania there > > > are a fair number in Gardens. Longwood, Morris, Tyler, Taylor, Awbury > > > to name a few. The Blue ash, F. quadrangulata does grow in the east > > > when planted. We have a state champ in the Philadelphia area in an > > > arboretum. The height is more than likely incorrect, be sure to check > > > it. Have fun looking for champs. > > > > Scott > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really > fast.http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_0... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
