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--Apple-Mail-27-387432612 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Sorry I sent this twice to NatureBNS. Jim > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] floral/fungal notes for Wolfville > > JUNE 19, 2013 - Just today on leaving home on foot, I noticed that > multiflora roses have just begun flowering. > > For about a week now I have been meaning to call attention to the > lush flowering of the big "acacia" tree, or black locust, on > Wolfville's Elm Avenue. All three species of the genus Robinia > occur in town here, and they all flower at the same time. Look for > clammy locust in the northeast corner of the Theatre Festival > parking lot, and elsewhere in Port Williams and Canning areas etc. > along roads. But bristly locust, Robinia hispida, occurs only in > one spot in Nova Scotia, and that is along south University Avenue, > just south of the campus buildings and on the east edge of the > roadside ditch -- look for very pretty reddish-purple big pea-like > flowers and bristly stems, nearly prostrate. > > Finally, along Main St. on the Acadia campus, I noticed orange > spots on the undersides of leaves of white ash. This is a rust > fungus, and ash is the alternate host of some possibly > agriculturally important rust? Nancy Nickerson can refresh our > memories on what this rust is and what it can infect and affect. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-27-387432612 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Sorry I sent this twice to = NatureBNS. Jim</div><div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature = BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] floral/fungal notes = for Wolfville</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>JUNE 19, 2013 </b>- Just = today on leaving home on foot, I noticed that<b> multiflora roses</b> = have just begun<b> flowering</b>.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">For about a week now I have = been meaning to call attention to the lush flowering of the big "acacia" = tree, or<b> black locust,</b> on Wolfville's Elm Avenue. All three = species of the genus <i>Robinia</i> occur in town here, and they all = flower at the same time. Look for clammy locust in the northeast = corner of the Theatre Festival parking lot, and elsewhere in Port = Williams and Canning areas etc. along roads. But<b> bristly = locust</b>, <i>Robinia hispida</i>, occurs only in one spot in Nova = Scotia, and that is along south University Avenue, just south of the = campus buildings and on the east edge of the roadside ditch -- look for = very pretty reddish-purple big pea-like flowers and bristly stems, = nearly prostrate.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Finally, along Main St. on the Acadia campus, I = noticed <b>orange spots</b> on the undersides of <b>leaves of white = ash</b>. This is a <b>rust fungus</b>, and ash is the alternate = host of some possibly agriculturally important rust? Nancy = Nickerson can refresh our memories on what this rust is and what it can = infect and affect.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-27-387432612--
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