Will- Was it very warm when you injected the trees? I was amazed at how fast they took it up before, but that was in warm weather. Do you know if that half of the oak died out, or was it cut for another reason? Mike
On Oct 17, 12:33 pm, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]> wrote: > Will- > Did you hide your tree measuring gear in a set of golf clubs? > -Don > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Asheville Country Club, NC > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:11:02 -0400 > > ENTS, > > I recently did some work on the Asheville Country Club > property here in Asheville, > NC. The work gave me the > opportunity to measure some trees I have been eyeballing for some time but are > in the fairways and would have involved trespassing. > > I was treating three large sycamores for anthracnose with > the Rainbow Tree Scientific Macro-Infusion system. I was impressed- It > delivered 40 gallons of Arbotect fungicide in less than 1 hour per tree. All > three trees were 58-60 inches DBH. The standout among them was a 60 inch tree > that stands 134.3’ tall- open grown! This specimen has a huge amount of > wood in it. > > Arbotect system set up > > 134.3’ sycamore with Jason Childs for scale > > We next measured the “NC State Champion” shingle > oak (Quercus imbricaria). It is an obvious double and one side has been cut > off. Diameter of the remaining stem is 46” X 91.6 feet tall. This tree is > in sorry shape but still the largest I have seen. The NC tree list has it as > 96 > feet- not bad. > > Shingle oak base > > Shingle oak tree > > Will F. Blozan > > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
