[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Charles Wohlers]

Just dug up a couple of very small (<1 ft tall) black walnuts for 
transplanting up in VT. We'll see how it goes. I do have 2 or more acres of 
field, so it won't be hard to find a place for them where they won't get in 
the way of other stuff. Also found several dozen actual walnuts the 
squirrels haven't gotten to yet - might take some of them also.

And, Mike, I thought ice plant was a noxious invasive. It's not native to 
California, for sure.

Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 2:13 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.



In a message dated 10/20/2016 1:36:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:

Reminds  me of my Pop's story of the only time he "went down to City Hall
to  complain".  Seems  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


I had an event about 20 years ago that did inspire me to go down to
Village Hall and verbally accost the "Village Engineer" of my dinky  home
town in NW Wisconsin (Grantsburg, pop. 1,300).

After the devastation of the Dutch Elm Disease (easily half the trees  in
the village were American Elms), the village got busy replanting.   Somehow
they came up with Yellow Bud Hickory (Carya cordiformis) trees for
a two block stretch along the street where the family home was  located.
Hickories are almost impossible to transplant because of their  prodigious
taproot, but in this case the trees prospered until they were about  40'.
Then, the Village Engineer decided that their roots might be a  problem,
and despite protests, they were all sacrificed.

I pointed out their unusual qualities to a somewhat surprised Village
Engineer,
who knew who I was because my family was a big fish in a little pond.
He was resolute in the righteousness of his actions.  I did get a  chance
to ventilate to the person responsible, and that felt good.

It didn't bring back the hickories.


David S.