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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Yes Nancy - Nellie was a dear soul.</sp=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">And down to earth!<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">I was at a meeting once and the subject=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">came up. Nellie said she had no problem=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">One condensing member asked her, a litt=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">lady in her 90s the time. "and what=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">"I shoot the bast**ds" Nellie r=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">There was no more discussion  on t=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the fall<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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<br/>> On November 1, 2016 at 5:59 PM NancyDowd <nancypdowd@gmai=
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<br/>> Yes the Butternut Tree in Crousetown, Lun Co, NS was likely p=
lanted there. Many on this forum will remember Nellie Snyder who was an all=
-round naturalist, expert in birds, plants etc. The tree was on her propert=
y. Nellie is someone I truly miss sharing nature observations with. And she=
thoroughly enjoyed reading the postings on NatureNS. She only got into com=
puters when she was 90.
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<br/>> Nancy
<br/>> On 2016-11-01, at 8:02 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympa=
tico.ca> wrote:
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<br/>> > Nancy,
<br/>> > many thanks for the tip re drying butternuts. So, all i=
t takes is patience.. Yes, butternuts sucker easily. But they germinate eas=
ily, too. Unfortunately they get grazed, by parties unknown, a lot. The but=
ternut tree growing in the woods near Crousetown in Lunenburg County: Is it=
located at an abandoned homestead? I do wonder how it got planted there.
<br/>> > Butternut populations throughout its natural range (NE =
USA, southern Ontario and Quebec) have been devastated by the butternut can=
ker, a fungal disease. In 1998 the disease has been found in the separate N=
.B. population, but N.S. still appears to be canker-free. So it is extremel=
y important not to inadvertently spread the disease from N.B. to N.S.
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<br/>> > ---Original Message----- From: NancyDowd
<br/>> > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 4:41 AM
<br/>> > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
<br/>> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] harvesting butternuts ?
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<br/>> > My mother used to bring back boxes of butternuts from h=
er family home in Sussex Corner, NB and we just left them in the basement (=
warm and dry from the furnace) for a month or two and then cracked them wit=
h a hammer to eat. In the open oven of the wood cookstove was even better a=
nd the nuts were good to go in a few weeks.
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<br/>> > I started two butternut trees from root suckers harvest=
ed from a butternut tree growing in the woods in Crousetown, Lun Co, NS les=
s than 10yrs ago. They are doing well on my mother's lawn in Bridgewate=
r. The small trees are now producing a decent crop of butternuts. So very e=
asy to propagate if you are interested.
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<br/>> > Nancy
<br/>> > E Dalhousie, Kings
<br/>> > On 2016-10-31, at 8:45 PM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns=
.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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<br/>> >> I have recently become interested in butternuts (J=
uglans cinerea), which are native to the St. John River of New Brunswick bu=
t with at least one small reproducing semi-natural population in Halifax. B=
ut how exactly do you harvest the nuts? The =E2=80=9Cmeat=E2=80=9D of the f=
resh nuts is delicious, but difficult to extract unbroken from crushed nuts=
. According to the internet you are supposed to dry them until you hear the=
=E2=80=9Cmeat=E2=80=9D within the nut rattling when you shake it.
<br/>> >> I guess the same goes for other nuts, such as wall=
nuts or =E2=80=9Cheartnuts.=E2=80=9D Any idea of how long, and at what temp=
erature, you are supposed to heat them?
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