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John McMillan writes:
| In article ,
| Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
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| Aesculus Indica?
| http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/parmar/02.html
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| I have three seedlings if you'd like one.
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| If my memories of London are correct, you can see this in Hyde Park.
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| You can certainly see it at Kew gardens, which are where, er, my
| three conkers came from. They all sprouted in march and are now 50cm
| high thugs. My own site is probably a bit small for such a species
| but I thought of growing one and coppicing it. You can do that for
| sweet chestnut can't you.

Sweet chestnut and horse chestnut have little in common. I doubt
that the tree Aesculus would coppice well, as they tend to suffer
from rot, but the shrubby ones might. I don't know. Sweet chestnut
does coppice well, as you say.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.