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Richard,
            Great topic ! Thanks ! I learn something new on this forum.
Craig/Athens,Ga.

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> From: RT Ellsberry <rtells@Flora.Com>
> To: Community_Forestry <TreeTown@Majordomo.Flora.Com>
> Subject: TT: Re: Live Oak
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 11:34 PM
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>  On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, aesculus wrote:
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> > There is a Southern Magnolia that has shown cold hardiness to -25F,
> > Bracken's
> > Brown Beauty. There  is a mass planting in Cinncinnati(sp) and has
beaten
> > the odds. So Yankees that want to take a chance,try it but please leave
the
> > skirt !
> >
>  Craig/Athens,Ga.
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>  Thank You Craig 'Aesculus' in Georgia -
> 
> For backing me up on the Live Oak thing, on which I went somewhat
> overboard.  But hey, I'm entitled to a favorite tree, and Quercus
> virginiana is probably that for now.  What a beauty.  OK, so it used
> to be exotic Red Maples, Weeping Willows.  Most of what I know about
> trees I learned from TreeTown reports (shameless self-serving plug).
> 
> I can't be the only one who's grateful for your update on cold-hardy
> Southern Magnolias (M. grandiflora).  That is both exciting (hey Lisa
> in NYC :), and complicated when species have their range synthetically
> extended, even if by a mechanism as 'benign' as genotype selection.  A
> few years back I saw a spectacular one in a park in central California.
> 
> I am anxious to hear more about the plantings in Cincinatti, along with
> the ecological implications.  For those of us who still love non-natives,
> we can always travel to visit them, again like your Live Oaks.
> 
> On an unrelated aside, Nat'l Public Radio reported last week that the
> modern suburban lawn was precisely described in a landscaper's text back
> in the 1880s by an author named 'Scott,' unaffiliated with the grass
> seed company.  Curious historians will want to locate this extremely
> influential book.
> 
>  Richard@Flora.Com
>  RT Ellsberry, TreeTown ListOp
> 
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