That is absolutely fascinating. Thanks, Turner.
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Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-5712
> From: turner <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
> To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]>
> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce
>
>
> Carolyn: Check out this site for a way of life that no longer exists.
> http://www.valdosta.edu/turpentine/
> Turner Sharp
>
> On Sep 29, 10:18 pm, Carolyn Summers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why did they collect the sap? What did they use it for?
>> --
>> Carolyn Summers
>> 63 Ferndale Drive
>> Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
>> 914-478-5712
>>
>>> From: JamesRobertSmith <[email protected]>
>>> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:40:45 -0700 (PDT)
>>> To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce
>>
>>> When I was a kid my dad would take me on Indian relic hikes that would
>>> invariably go through various slash pine plantations. This was in
>>> south Georgia. The plantation owners would literally "slash" the
>>> pines--make a wound in the bark--and place pans to collect the sap
>>> beneath the slashes. Similar, in some ways, to collecting maple sap,
>>> in principle. Plantation slash pines look a lot different from wild
>>> ones. The ones on plantations grow straight and true, but the ones
>>> that I encounter in natural settings have a lot of large limbs and
>>> quite a bit of differentiation in the trunks. One thing notable about
>>> them are the really long needles. Longer than most other pines I've
>>> seen.
>>
>>> On Sep 25, 8:34 am, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Larry,
>>
>>>> Slash pine is a cool species. But I know very little about it and where it
>>>> fits into the ecosystem as well as its economic uses. Wasn't it an
>>>> important
>>>> source of turpentine? I would image our buddy Will Fell could tell us a lot
>>>> about the species.
>>
>>>> Bob
>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Larry" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 7:55:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>>>> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce
>>
>>>> Bob, Cool! I really enjoy those odd trees. I have a couple of odd
>>>> limbed Slash Pines close by. I've been meaning to post them. Larry
> >
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