[BITList] [From: Mike Feltham] Scotland's new forest

[David Harvey]

What kind of fruit, Hugh, just curious,

Dave
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From: "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BITList] [From: Mike Feltham] Scotland's new forest


> Mike,
>
> I must be getting dim - it took me a while to get the slide show working.
> For that and other reasons I should get out more.  I recall seeing a TV 
> show
> about the forest, and it may take a few lifetimes for the whole to
> regenerate to the original high tree line.  Where I am, on the south bank 
> of
> the lower Clyde, used to be famous for its orchards - the 1857 map shows
> extensive swathes of fruit trees where my childhood homes used to stand.
> Few nowadays have a clue about that, and assume the place was always a 
> built
> up wasteland of ex-shipyards become housing estates with added Tesco. But
> small areas where the demolishers planted saplings decoratively a few 
> years
> ago are now dense woods that will have to be cut back - the natural order
> would take over in 10 years if we moved out.  More power to it.
>
> Hugh.
>
>
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