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What Makes A Good Tree?OSU Nursery Short
CourseJanuary 25, 1999

• Rick Thomas, R. G. Thomas Landscaping
• Bill Hendricks, Klyn Nurseries
• Joe Boggs, OSU Extension
• Jim Chatfield, OSU Extension

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I drove to Westernbirt, the arboretum in
Gloustershire, one misty morning in October,
1994. The parkland was full or parked cars. Is
there a pop concert or car rally? , I asked with
dismay. No. Theyve come like you - to see the
maples.

• - Thomas Parkenham
• Meetings With Remarkable Trees

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Naturum expelles fuca, tamen usque recurret

• - Horace

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Naturum expelles furca, tamen usque recurret

• - Horace

You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but
she always returns.
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Three centuries he grows, and three he stays,
supreme in state, and in three more decays.
- Dryden
Three hundred years growing Three hundred
years living Three hundred years dying.

PARVIS E GLANDIBUS QUERCUS!
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There may be god in the tree, a sixty-year-old
villager told us through an interpreter, Its
the biggest, strongest, straightest tree for many
days travel, bigger than any other we have seen.
- Milton Silverman The Search For Dawn
Redwoods
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A tree is a tree - how many more do you need to
look at?

• - Ronald Reagan

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But those trees! Those trees!Those truffula
trees!All my life Id been searchingFor trees
such as these.The touch of their tuftswas much
softer than silk.And they had thesweet smellof
fresh butterfly milk.
- Theodore Geisel
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• FAVORITE TREES
• Bill Hendricks
• Sugar Tyme crabapple
• Autumn Blaze maple
• Heptacodium miconioides

• FRUSTRATING
• TREES
• Bill Hendricks
• Sour gum
• Oak complex
• Pawpaw, Persimmon, Sassafras

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• FAVORITE TREES
• Joe Boggs
• Prairifire crabapple
• Male ginkgo
• Baldcypress

• FRUSTRATING
• TREES
• Joe Boggs
• Hopa crabapple
• Female ginkgo
• European birch

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• FAVORITE TREES
• Rick Thomas
• Red maple
• Sweetbay magnolia
• Winter King hawthorn

• FRUSTRATING
• TREES
• Rick Thomas
• Prairifire crabapple
• Redbud
• Pin oak