From Pat_Elazar@cwb.ca Tue Jun 29 17:24:54 1999 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:18:40 -0500 From: Pat Elazar To: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: RE: Thornless Honey Locust Cultivars I got the following from Dr Michael Gold from the dept of forrestry at U Missouri: Pat: Thornless HL needs to be purchased from a reputable nursery. Since you can take the "adult" wood (which is often thornless on even a thorny tree) from the upper, outer crown of a thorny tree and through grafting get a "thornless" tree, you can not grow honeylocust from seed and be sure of it being 'inermis'. It is possible to collect and germinate seeds (seeds must be either filed down or acid scarified to germinate readily) and grow the seedlings for a couple years in order to determine if they are thorny or not. Many thorny seedlings will show thorns within 10 weeks of germination, other that are not quite so "armed" may not reveal their true nature until a somewhat later age. Honeylocust is planted all over the country as an ornamental, but it is best to purchase a sapling from a local nursery that has a good reputation. Honeylocust that has a southern origin will suffer dieback or even death if planted in the northern tier of states. Sincerely, Dr. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Pat Elazar [mailto:Pat_Elazar@cwb.ca] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:24 AM To: GoldM@missouri.edu Subject: Improved Honey Locust Cultivars Hi Dr Mike! I hope you & family are okay. Glad to see you back in the west! I have an urgent question about thornless Honey Locust (G.T. Inerma). Are there grafted varities of this cultivar available, or do they grow "true" from seed? What would be the approximate range? This is from a client, not for my own use... BTW, do you have chestnuts down there at Missou? Pat To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail