Contorted Chestnut: Young Walking-Stick Branches
Historical seasonal newsletter
Explore young contorted chestnut branches in a historical autumn program, with notes on developing shape, honey-bee pollination and eighteen-foot hops.
From the original crop report
The article calls contorted chestnut “walking stick” and describes a medium grade at twenty-four to thirty-six inches in ten-bunch bundles.
Details from the farm
Patrick notes that the young branches had shape and color but had not yet fully developed their contortion. This explains why the age and illustrated silhouette matter when discussing specimen material.
Seasonal context
The accompanying email included eighteen-foot hop vines, Cardinal Candy viburnum, snowberries and Chinese lanterns. A Steve Fuller fishing profile added a view of the people around the farm.
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Original article title: Contorted Chestnut Branches, Walking Stick.
Web archive created January 8, 2014. This can differ from the original email date because newsletters were converted to webpages in the off-season.
An exact email send date could not be verified. The seasonal label reflects the source material.