On Friday I took Rachel out for lunch atThe Warehouse Market , a very nice country storage / bakery which also fall out to stock some of my Holy Writ .
While driving a thread country road , I spotted something beautiful . So beautiful , in fact , that I had to turn around and take moving-picture show .
This chestnut is one of the loveliest I have seen , and it was dead dilute with nut .
As I was charter this second photograph from the road , the property owner came out and say hi . I walked up to the porch and said “ hi , ” telling him that his tree was the most beautiful I ’d check here in Lower Alabama .
occur to think of it , it may be the only one I ’ve seen here , other than the potted ones I start from seminal fluid I purchased . Some folks most set Taiwanese chestnut on their deer secret plan , since I have seen them for sale at stores and a local tell apart me they did – but I have n’t really seen them mature .
This one is a showstopper . Jack , the possessor , told me it ’s at least 200 years erstwhile .
Even the luggage compartment has great eccentric :
“ About twenty year ago , the power troupe descend and was going to cut it down . The mankind had the chainsaw at the basis when I caught him , ” Jack say . “ I told him he could move the superpower line , but there was no style I was gon na let him cut down that Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . ”
I noticed the power occupation going through the middle of the tree diagram , and thought how they must have execute the lines over the tree diagram to begin with , if the tree is centuries old .
“ People do n’t get that God made these tree to feed us . They ’ll trend one down for convenience or to issue corners . ”
“ I ’m glad you were here to pull through it , ” I said . “ This is a truly beautiful tree . Obviously it ’s really well suited to our area . ”
“ It ’s always been there , ” Jack continue . “ I ’ve lived here my intact life . It always makes pot of fruitcake , except every ninth year it does n’t bear anything . Do you acknowledge why it would do that ? ”
“ Perhaps it needs to recharge , ” I mused .
“ Some Chinese used to descend and pick them , ” Jack articulate . “ I tell them they were welcome to take them . I laugh at a few every year but this tree makes so many . They do n’t come anymore , though . That was some age ago . ”
“ It ’s astonishing , ” I order .
“ Well , you’re able to come and find fault up as many as you like , ” he tell me .
“ give thanks you , ” I replied . “ I ’d care to implant them and save these genetics , since they ’re so well adapted . ”
“ You ’re welcome to them , ” he say .
Right now the nuts are just starting to fall .
What a nice find ! Here are a few more pic :
I ’ll be checking back on that Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and amass more nuts to plant .
We ’ll see if we canstore these chestnut through winterto develop in the leap . I ’ll probably espouse the method in that link , as well as plant life some directly out in a seeded player seam this declension .
