Barry, I think Arborvitae is White Cedar or a type of Thuja,
JP On Jan 4, 7:35 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > I guess it was Saturday I think, I was trying to rearrange my bookcase that > has all my New Jersey books in it, to make room for some new or recent > purchases. I re-discovered a Forestry Suppliers catalog that's been in my > book case since 1982. When I was a senior in high school, if asked, I would > tell people that I wanted to get into forestry or farming, once I graduated. > (I think that's what is in my yearbook too. At the time it never ocurred to > me that forestry involved cutting down trees! I guess I had a pre-conceived > notion that forestry was planting trees and taking care of them, and doing > other similar things. Anyway, after high school I went to the Word of Life > Bible Institute (in the Adirondacks), which is a one-year school. Then I > thought I was going to go to college, but I didn't. After I got home after > that year was up, I was buying gardening and seed catalogs, and I also bought > the Forestry Suppliers catalog (#32, Spring 1982 - Spring 1983), > though I obviously never bought anything from it. I just put it on my > bookshelf and forgot it. I've still got it. What a relic it is now I guess, > being 27+ years old. I just thought it was kind of interesting that this > thing is still in my bookshelf. Actually I must have bought it while I was > still at Word of Life, maybe on my Spring Break. Anyway I was going to post > this a couple days ago, but finally got around to it today. > I know last night and today I've been posting like crazy, with few responses. > But I keep posting anyway. Maybe I'm crazy. I know there were a couple > responses to my ring count of that Pitch Pine. > By the way, I didn't participate in that Conifer Quiz because I had no idea > of what the trees were. Well actually I was quite sure the last one was what > I call Arbor Vitae, however you spell that. > Barry -- 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]
