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The Newsletter of the International Society Volume No. 5, Issue No. 2 Winter 2001

NEW ARBORETUM OPENS Oak Open Days in , 2001 Taltree Arboretum and Gardens, Valparaiso, Indiana, is pleased to announce that their arboretum was officially opened on Saturday 6 October 2001. The primary woody collec­ tion genus at Taltree is Quercus. This young collection consists of 7 + species growing naturally on site with over 70 additional species propagated from seed obtained through the Oak Society Seed Exchange. We invite all Oak Society members to visit Taltree any time they are in the area.

james E. Hitz, Director, Taltree Arboretum and Gardens, 71 N 500 W, Valparaiso, IN 46385, (219) 462-0025. ABOVE: International Oak Society members and hosts during Oak Open Days in Spain NEW OAK PUBLICATION at the Finca Co to del Rey, near Jerez de los Caballeros. AVAILABLE or the fortunate International Oak Society Q. foginea spp. broteroi, Q foginea, Q. coccifera, F members who journeyed to Spain for the 3 Q. robur, and various hybrids were inspected. The Library Fellows of the National days of October 26-28, good times were cettainly The propagation house at the research station Museum ofWomen in the Arts announce served in hefty portions. Francisco Vazquez held seedlings of many North American oak the publication of Quercus Psalter, a Pardo and his research associates hosted a species growing vigorously. Oak presentations limited edition artist's book by Sue Ann hectic schedule of pre-dawn awakenings, long by Francisco and his research staff followed a Robinson. A contemporary meditation on scenic rides, vigorous oak-viewing stops, surprising spread of 'appetizers' at the station, the oak tree, Quercus psalter is a sixteen­ unpredictable lunch stops, interesting talks and a seed exchange back at the hotel finished page accordion-fold bookwork printed and presentations, and post-sunset returns to the day. on both sides with text, drawings and the hotel rooms. Participants were well-sated photographs exploring in images and by bedtime, in mind and body. During Day 2, the tour proceeded south of prose the relationship between humanity Badajoz into the "Dehesa"-a savannah-like and the oak. The title refers to the genus Th~ first day of the tour began in Badajoz, in the forest of oak where Q. rotundifolia dominates for "oak," the latinized version of the South of Spain. Traveling west into , and Q. suber is an associate species. We Celtic for "fine tree." Mythology, oak the party had their first look at the shrubby enjoyed a morning hike into this managed facts, and anecdotes about are mixed Quercus lusitanica growing in sandy soils beneath forest, which covers many thousands of with drawings and photographs in the a forest of Q. suber. Then, westward to the hectares in southern Spain, and which is an enchanting form of the bookwork which rugged, precipitous coast south of Lisbon, in important agricultural link to the production opens out, accordion fashion, to represent Arrabida Natural Park. Here amid limestone of pork. This was the "Montanera", or time a tranquil oak ~~e. Original photographs rock and dense shrubby thickets of the highest of acorn maturation, and we saw and of Black oaks and Engelmann oaks by ridges were Q';occifera in company with a wide tasted first-hand how the sweet acorns of the artist in Cove and the Santa variety of Mediterranean companion Q. rotundifolia fatten up ranging bands of Rosa Ecological Preserve, CA. such as Pistacia, Olea, Phillyrea, Arbutus, and black Iberian pigs that are turned out amid others. On the lower slopes and ravines we these vast forests to produce a most highly Contact the National Museum of encountered the rare and newly described Q prized type of ham. Here among the pigs Women in the Arts at (202) 783-7994 rivas-martinezii. Back to the east and Badajoz, and oaks the group was also treated to a single or (202) 783-7364. FAX (202) 393-3235 Spain we visited the Institute of Agrarian presumed hybrid of Q rotundifolia and Q suber, to order Quercus Psalter or contact their Research in Badajoz Province, where our hosts and then a hefty lunch of gourmet sausages Store at 1-800-222-7270. worked. Plantations of Q rotundifolia, Q suber, ("Spain 2001" continued on page 2) PAGEZ

("Spain 2001" continued from front page) Pyrenees mountains took us by two excellent Points of Contact old and huge specimens of Q. petraea and and other Spanish fare. After being herded Q. faginea at the San Juan del Ia Pefia back onto the bus, we gazed along a winding Monastery, north of J aca. MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS OR route southward amid oak-studded hills, APPLICATIONS: miles of stone fences and ancient hilltop Day 2 included a return to the high Pyrenees, Dick Jensen, Membership Chairperson watchtowers. A quick stop at a southern amid rushing rivers, gorges, aspens, rocks, Department of Biology population of Q. pyrenaica in the Tentudia and meadows. Oak stops along the way Saint Mary's College mountains, and then on to hotel at the southern afforded acorn-gathering and photographic Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA of coastal Spain. More opportunities. Afterwards, the group journeyed 219-284-4674, FAX: 219-284-4716 oak-related presentations at the hotel then west and north to the vicinity of the coast for e-mail: [email protected] complimented the day's end, before we retired a visit to the splendid arboretum El Jardin SUBMITTALS FOR THE JOURNAL to Oceanside rooms with a soothing breeze. Botanico De lturraran. There a collection of OR NEWSLETTER: oaks from many parts of the world is being Doug McCreary, Editorial Committee The 3rd and final day started with a visit to a assembled, with at least 150 types having been Chairperson nearby 'champion' Olive tree, over l,OOOyears planted out on the grounds. After wandering University of California old, and a walk in the Dofiana National Park and inspecting many of these young oaks, the 8279 Scott Forbes Road amid a few old and especially large-fruited group was ushered by twilight back to the Browns Valley, California 95918, USA Q. suber. Then, ascending into the hills of bus for a long ride to our Bed and Breakfast e-mail: [email protected] Alcornacales Natural Park in Cadiz Province, in Cantabria Province. BUSINESS ISSUES: we saw many miles of Q. suberforests flanking Guy Sternberg the mountainsides as we stopped for inspections Day 3 started with a ride into the high Starhill Forest of Q. canariensis, Q. faginea ssp. broteroi, Q mountains of Cantabria, passing Q i!ex forests Route 1, Box 272 faginea ssp. alpestris, and Q lusitanica. After on rocky slopes and gorge walls and Q. suber Petersburg, Illinois 62675, USA a pleasant lunch break under the oaks, we along sunny slopes. Ultimately we reached descended the mountains to Seville, where Quercus-Fagus-Castanea forests, where we got EUROPEAN CONTACT: some of the group disembarked and bid our first glimpse of Q pyrenaica. Descending Thierry Lamant, Vice President farewell, and others rode onward to Badajoz, the mountains to the south into Leon Province, Office National des Forets arriving in the night to their hotel. the road dropped steeply in the rainy afternoon Conservatoire Genetique des Arbres hours, where we searched for a recently Forestiers Avenue de Ia Pomme de Pin The Northern Spain Tour: named Quercus species amid Q. pyrenaica and BP 20619 Ardon, 45166 Olivet cedex, A small party of International Oak Society Q. faginea woodlands, only succeeding in a France members (4 of us) also partook of a tour to the chilly drenching of our clothes. A long ride north of Spain, offered by Francisco and his in the comfort of the vehicles to Salamanca CONFERENCE 2003: expert research staff, October 20-24. Traveling allowed for a drying-out. Allen Coombes at a pace which was brisk at the least, this Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum tour was a special treat for the riders and a On Day 4, after heading out of Salamanca Jeremy's Lane grueling chore for the drivers. Nevertheless, toward Badajoz, the group was routed past the Ampfield, near Romsey largest Q. pyrenaica known to our Spanish Hampshire S051 OQA, United Kingdom all participants sought and found plenty of 'oak sights' along the route. guides. This was a giant specimen on a grazed QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA: mountainside, itself wide-crowned but Ron Lance, President During Day 1, traveling from Madrid surrounded by other examples of this species The North Carolina Arboretum northeast past Zaragoza, we got our first look that were also impressive. Another treat near PO Box 6617 at Q. rotundifolia, Q. coccifera, and Q. faginea Badajoz was the largest known specimen of Asheville, North Carolina 28816, USA near Guadalajara, and Q ilexand Q xcerrioides Q rotundifolia, called the "EncinaLa Terrona"­ near Santa Maria. A loop north into the with a trunk 7.6 m in circumference.

The members of the International Oak Society that were carted about and treated to such an Pre?jdent: Ron Lance excellent tour thank their Spanish hosts, OA\Jf( NJE\W§ N07fJE§ l§.r Vice President: Thierry Lamant especially Francisco M. Vazquez Pardo, Secretary: Dorothy Holley Enrique Balbuena Gutierrez, Esperanza The Newsletter of the International Oah Society Treasurer: Peter van der Linden 8279 Scott Forbes Road Donee! Perez, Soledad Ramos Maqueda, and Editor: Doug McCreary Browns Valley, CA 95918 Juan Pozo. Amid various other assistants, the USA Send submissions to the address on the left. guidance and hospitality of Angel Josemaria, Telephone: 530-639-8807 Beatriz Isabel, and Ana Belen Lucas Pimienta Facsimile: 530-639-2419 is also acknowledged. E-Mail: [email protected] -Ron Lance PAGE3

INFORMAL OAKS OPEN DAY AT SIR HAROLD HILLIER GARDENS AND ARBORETUM

n informal Open Day was held at the Sir was spent looking at some of the more mature A Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum trees in the 180 acre arboretum; those we near Winchester, Hampshire UK, on Saturday noted particularly were Quercus fobri, Q x bushii 20th, October 2001, for members and their (Q. velutina x Q marilandica) and Q 'Pondaim' friends-who we hope will become members! with its huge -a hybrid between We were fortunate in having a warm, sunny Q pontica and Q dentata raised at Trompenberg autumn day on which to see some of the oaks Arboretum. Some of us had a taste of Lithocarpus in this large National Collection. edulis (!)before our buffet lunch, at which we had the opportunity to see a display of specimens The day began with an exchange and sale of from the Herbarium kindly prepared by young trees. Afterwards the party of 35 Dorothy Holley and Eric Clements. In the enthusiasts was led by Allen Coombes who, afternoon we crossed the road where we saw with his abundant knowledge of oaks, has been many newly introduced trees, particularly responsible for adding many species to the those from Mexico. For members who stayed collection originally started by Sir Harold. As the course, we ended the day admiring the we toured the arboretum, it became clear that magnificent Quercus rhysophylla. Stretch to reach the sky. the oak collection is extensive, haphazardly distributed, and frequently either unlabelled This was a most enjoyable, interesting and Its is fissured and platy. or, accordingly to Allen, mislabeled. Without informative day. Thank you, Allen, for leading Its leaves are rust red with the coming offolL Allen's leadership we would not have found the tour. half the collection on our own. The morning - jo Earle and Barry Denyer-Green The oak has watched the decades go by, The summers and winters pass, It watched the squirrels bury its acorns, And proudly looks on as its saplings grow. ACORNS FOR AMERICA-Share the Excitement!

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With your assistance, classes, groups, churches, ADVERTISING POLICY: and clubs can grow their own trees. This is a The International Oak Society accepts advertisements for oak-related practical, low-cost urban re-forestation tool. enterprises in the Oak News & Notes Newsletter. A camera-ready, card-size ad costs $25.00 per issue. PAGE4 Next International Oak Society Conference Set for 2003 ou probably do not have a calendar or Work is under way on planning two tours, one in the United States has already set the wheels Y diary for 2003 yet but, if you are intending to the Netherlands and Belgium immediately in motion, and we have since received other to travel anywhere that year, then please before the Conference, and the other to sites in offers from two UK members; support has reserve September for our Fourth Triennial the south and west of England, immediately also been promised by the UK Forestry Conference. In January 2001, a Committee following it. Those attending the pre-Conference Commission. You can rest assured that your was established to plan the events and we field trip will meet in Schiphol or Utrecht Committee will be working to increase would welcome any comments you may have on the evening of Tuesday 9 September. sponsorship, in particular from public bodies, on our plans, as they progress. There will then be two and a half days of but any generosity from other Society visits, ending at the cross channel ferry, and members will be more than welcome! With We already have the venue booked, in a brand another coach will pick you up on the UK their permission, the names of all sponsors new facility at King Alfred's College, Winches­ side and take you to Winchester on Friday will be added to the notepaper. ter, complete with on-site accommodation for evening. 120 and a Hall which will seat 180. For those I have posted the E-mail address for Dorothy who do not already know it, Winchester is a The post-Conference field trip will start on and myself on the International Oak Society small, intimate old city in southern England, the morning of Tuesday 16 September and web site and it is also in the latest Directory, dating back to Roman times and also boasting is planned to include visits to Kew Gardens, but please feel free to respond to any member connections with King Arthur; you can very Westonbirt Arboretum, and several sites in of the 2003 Conference Planning Committee easily walk around it in an hour or two, the south west of England. It is planned to who are listed below: though there are one or two hills to climb, terminate at the Hillier Gardens and Arboretum and it has one of England's finest cathedrals. or at Heathrow Airport, as desired, on Saturday Allen Coombes Chairman 20 September. James Harris Vice Chairman & Programme Sub-Committee The talks and discussions at the Conference Dorothy Holley Secretary of the Society will occupy two complete days, Saturday the It is too early to give confident estimates on Ron Holley Conference Secretary 13th and Sunday the 14th of September, and costs but, for the 12th to the 16th, we have Bill Legge-Bourke Treasurer the 15th will be spent at the Hillier Gardens negotiated inclusive terms with King Alfred's Eike Jablonski European Tour Organiser Phil Morton UK Tour Organiser and Arboretum, some 15 miles away; the College for accommodation, all meals, and Jo Earle Programme Sub-Committee General Members Meeting will also be held the conference facilities. It should be noted Richard Earle there. The Conference Dinner will be held that all rooms at the College are single. For on the Sunday evening. those who require doubles or twin, we will Co-opted: Piers Trehane Lead Member, Programme endeavour to obtain suitable terms from Sub-Committee We are at present sketching out the various hotels and Guest Houses within easy reach Simon Milne Director, Sir Harold Hillier sessions but we already have a promise of of the College, but living-in will clearly be Gardens & Arboretum participation by the UK National Maritime the most practical solution, as well as being Museum whose staff have some fascinating cheaper for participants overall, as we will An update on plans and preparations will be material on the historical use of oak in ships. have to apportion a share of the conference included in future Newsletters. Until the next As to the more academic subjects, we are in costs to anyone living out. iSSUe ...• negotiation with the Forestry Institute of Best wishes, Oxford University and have short-listed a Tour costs and other charges will be dependent Ron Holley number of other speakers from both in and on the level of sponsorship achieved. A outside the UK. generous donation from one of our members Nevv Oak Disease

as anyone else in central Illinois or three years, a,Rd I suspected it was different. Death disease (Phytophthora ramorum) had H elsewhere begun to notice the dying The progress of the symptoms did not match found its way to Illinois. Then Nancy Pataky shingle oaks (Quercus imbricaria Michx.) in oak wilt exactly, nor did the length of time of the University of Illinois plant clinic and Sangamon and Menard Counties? The disease the trees take to die. In addition, the infection pathologist R. Jay Stipes of Virginia Tech superficially resembles oak wilt, and apparently centers so prevalent with -transmitted recommended having a lab in Indiana run an some district foresters and arborists have diseases like oak wilt have not been observed. ELISA test for the bacterial scorch (BLS) dismissed it as that because oak wilt is so agent Xylella fastidiosa. The test came back common. (This is analogous to blaming Still, I had cultures taken to isolate oak wilt, positive. BLS is spread by leafhopper insects, poison ivy for every skin irritation). But I have just in case. They were negative. My next not by sap beetles and root grafts as is oak observed the disease closely during the past fear was that the California Sudden Oak wilt. While both diseases are fatal to oaks in PAGES

Chihuahuan Desert Oak occasional glimpses of Q. turbinel!a, but Exploration Trip-August 2001 common sightings of Q. x undulata. We were slightly disappointed at the lack of acorns on Q hypo!eucoides, but delighted at the abundance of Q. rugosa acorns at Whitewater Canyon as we walked through the very well maintained Catwalk. The warden gave us ample warning of diamond back snakes and their propensity to bite rather more at this particular time of year since they were molting their skins. We were told that the skin covers the eye when they molt; being unable to see very well they will strike at anything moving that appears to threaten them. Previously, when collecting acorns under the nation's champion Q emoryi tree, my hand had come to within six inches of a rather testy black scorpion. ABOVE: A group shot taken in New Mexico at a grove ofMexican blue oak (Q oblangifolia) at the northern edge ofthe range ofthe species. Acting on Michael's advice, acorns from the trip were sown immediately on return and I "Make sure that your tent is snake proof and range of trees to grow. We were there during can report good germination from several scorpion proof' was the slightly alarming last monsoon season and had our fair share of species. In our relatively overcast skies of email from Michael Melendrez, just prior to torrential rain and vivid thunder and lightning Europe, however, I think that lack of light our flights to Albuquerque. The name of the storms. We drove SE to The Monzano and may act to inhibit good growth of the New city means "redolent of oaks", and New Mexico White Mountains where gambel oaks (Q. Mexico oaks, but several of us will persevere. is a haven for oak buffs. The company of 15 gambelii) abound, and then to Sierra Blanca We also hope to determine the parentage of people from the US and Europe, informally Peak. In the Lincoln County cemetery we saw several of the species we saw since it was organized to conduct a trial run for a field the remaining trees of the fabled Q x fend!eri, difficult for our resident experts to agree on trip to accompany the 2006 Triennial meeting, before moving on to the Capitan Mountains to the name of specific oaks-not surprisingly gradually assembled and were generously look at Q. muhlenbergii growing in association given their predilection to hybridise. (The hosted in overnight accommodation by the with Pinus strobiformis and P. ponderosa. oaks, not the resident experts). Los Lunas Rotary Club. The use of four wheel drive trucks were also donated by the In the Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas at This was a great trip, full of incident, warm Rotary, and we were accompanied by a very the superb McKittrick Canyon we discovered friendships and marvelous oaks. Some of the able pair of minders and provisioners, as we a rich vein of oaks including Q.pungens, Q. group even documented new national cham­ set off to see oaks in the Chihuahuan Desert. muh!enbergii, Q. mohriana and Q. grisea. In pions for Q grisea, Q. mohriana and Q emoryi! this enchanting canyon were also Alligator Michael, thank you for the time and energy This huge area, once a vast sea, is surrounded Junipers-juniperus deppeana-as well as you gave to organizing the trip--it was a real by impressive brooding mountains, but Prunus serotina and bigtooth maples (Acer privilege to be there. I hope to return. alleviated by the most beautiful canyons that gra'l:didentum). Then we drove back to New have micro climates which enable a wide Mexico and the Organ mountains with - john Gammon

The Prairie AKt the Lobatae (red oak) section, the treatment cards, prints & custom designs inspired by recommendations are not the same. No trenching native landscapes is needed to separate diseased trees from healthy ones, and no removal of apparently healthy trees surrounding those with BLS is useful.

I would welcome any feedback from members regarding their experiences with BLS in other areas. lmJr ;II'" ·II'W Tlr r l' m r r,r~\ , .,. ~ . tTifl i - Guy Sternberg Catalogue: P.O .Box 6,Hinsdale,/L 60522 (630) 887-8375 email: ThePrairieArts@juno com strhlfrst@ao!. com PAGE6 In Memorium r. Yuri Leonardovich Menitzky, (1971) and Flora Europaea Orienta/is (to be With Yuri Mentizky we lose a great oak D Russian Oak Society member, died on published in 2003). taxonomist, who had not only extensive September 5, 2001 at the age of 64. He knowledge of the material he was working In addition to oaks, Yuri Menitzky was suffered a heart attack during a collecting trip with in the herbaria, but also had extensive interested in a large number of other plant to the Northern Caucasus. field experience. After his main work became species, with a special interest in Lamiacea, more widely available in the West and he Yuri was born in Leningrad in 1937, where especially Thymus. He also prepared began to be regognized throughout the world, he also graduated from the University in descriptions of several genera for the Flora of plans were made to translate his publications 1960. He was a postgraduate student at the the European Part ofthe USSR (1978) and for into English. He became a member of the Oak Komarov Botanical Institute, where he the Flora ofArmenia (1987). Another woody Society and was on the proposed speaker list became a member of the staff in 1966. His family, the Salicaceae, was described in Plants for the 2003 International Oak Society Ph.D. dissertation, titled Oaks ofthe Caucasus, ofCentra!Asia (1989). Recently he prepared Conference in England. His main work Oaks was published in 1971. Since Yuri was also a material for the Critical Synopsis of the ofAsia, which is very much sought after by mathematician in addition to a botanist, he Caucasian Flora; he developed a system of Quercophiles, will not lose its value and will used several biometrical-statistical methods regions and wrote descriptions of about 30 keep its author, Y.L.Menitzky, and his for his taxonomic work. families, including Aceracea, Betulaceae, knowledge and enthusiasm for oaks, in our Lamiaceae, Salicaceae and others. Since 1987 His main botanical work was devoted to the minds. he was the deputy chief editor of the genus Quercus. Yuri regularly made field - Eike Jablonski Botanichesky Zhurnal and supervised a number excursions all over the former Soviet Union, of Ph.D. dissertations. I wish to thank Mr. Dmitry Geltman, Komarov collecting an immense amount of herbarium Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Prof Dr. material, which he sent in large wooden boxes His interests went beyond botany and P.A. Schmidt, University of Dresden, Germany, back to his institute. The Caucasus remained included mathematics and electronics. He for their kind help in providing additional one of his favorite places to work, as he loved built his own radio and had contact with information about Yuri Mentizky. Yuris main the region and its flora very much. He could radio amateurs all over the world. He could works on oaks including Oaks ofAsia are stilt speak and read the Georgian language, and listen to news from outside the communist available on line at http://www.pensofi. com. traveled widely through remote Caucasian countries, and did not hide his political regions with his ISH-500 motor bike. His opinions-both sometimes caused him wife, Dr. Tamara Nikitichina Popova, who also problems with the political leaders of that worked at the Komarov Institute, accompanied time. Yuri on most of his field travels. They have two daughters, Olga and Anna. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •••••• In 1982 his work Review ofthe genus Quercus • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ofEurasia was published, and two years later ( 1984) his main work Oaks ofAsia came out, : ...... ·;~.All our Friends Abroad: ~ where for the first time since Camus' Les • chenes, a general treatment of Asian oak • species was given. This work is still the main l Thanks! • reference for many Asian oaks, and today is : 5 I ve been receiving many • the most useful publication for oak • ~ . . . ctors and members in the U 1Cl mbers around the world • taxonomists worldwide, not only because of • Oak Sooety dire d onsolation from other me 1 d "911" is a US • • messages of concern "n·f is becoming known as 91 took place : the detailed descriptions, but also because of ~hat ~hich the exact line drawings of nearly all Asian : regarding thej~afo~d::ergencies, and. the sen:e l e~~~~'~,e most uagic of : • telephone co h 11th day certarnly ra n s a • oaks. Because it is printed in Russian, this • on the 9th mont , "' d • work was widely unknown to the public in • . e have ever ,ace . • emergencieS w y other cot,mtries. We • the West until tlie inid 1990's. • t coming from so man . . S h acts • In Oaks of Asia Yuri used his biometrical : We deeply appreciateat~~:~o;gainst us a/1-agains:h c~~;~~~~~~e ~~ death : methods to develop a broader species concept • rea lize that this waf where before, although not 11!1 ld happen anywhere. : than was generally accepted in Russia at that • have taken ~ l ace e :e. it occurred in the US, but It cou On behall o'f all • time, as the botanical species concept was : and dest:uctiOo~i J~~~:~~:en affected, and shaf r.e~~~:;plo!~d solidarity during • much narrower according the Komarov School. • The entire w h k you all for your ne : : American mderr:bers, t an Guy Sternberg • So his concept generated controversy within • this trouble time. - • Russian botanists. For Oaks ofAsia Yuri was • • awarded the Komarov prize of the Academy • ••••••••••• • • •••••••••••• • of Science of the USSR. Other publications • • ••••••••••• ofYuri that addressed oaks were Flora Iranica • • • • • • •