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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Chestnuts should not be confused with either Horse-chestnuts (family Sapindaceae; also called "buckeye"), or water-chestnuts (family Cyperaceae); both are so named for producing superficially similar nuts.
		Chestnut trees thrive on neutral and acidic soils, such as soils derived from granite, sandstone, or schist, and do not grow well on alkaline soils such as chalk.
		Chestnuts grown for nut production are grown in orchards with wide spacing between the trees to encourage low, broad crowns with maximum exposure to sunshine to increase nut production.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Chestnut (1001 words)

	Sweet Chestnut - Biocrawler
		The Sweet Chestnut is a tree (Castanea sativa, family Fagaceae) native to southern Europe and Asia Minor.
		Sweet Chestnut is widely cultivated for its edible nuts.
		The Corsican variety of polenta (called pulenta) is made with sweet chestnut flour.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sweet_chestnut (305 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Chestnut
		The horse chestnut tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, a native of the Balkan peninsula, is now cultivated in many countries for shade and ornament.
		The best-known species of horse chestnut is the common, or European, horse chestnut (A. hippocastanum), native to southeastern Europe but widely cultivated as a large...
		The slayings of Chestnut and Gibson, and the wounding of a...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Chestnut (1291 words)

	Top Five Trees for Life Beyond Oil - #5 - The Sweet Chestnut. » Transition Culture
		The Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) hails originally from that part of the world, around the Mediterranean, and was brought to the UK, along with the walnut tree, public baths, central heating and orgies, by the Romans.
		Sweet chestnut can be grown as a timber tree, producing a highly valued timber, usually grown on 50-70 year rotations.
		Sweet chestnut coppice took off in the UK in the 1800s to be able to supply the hop industry with long straight poles.
	transitionculture.org /?p=216 (774 words)

	Sacred Earth - Foraging: Sweet Chestnuts (Castanea sativa)
		Sweet chestnuts, which must not be confused with horse chestnuts, belong to the family of the Fagaceae, which comprises numerous species of trees with edible nuts, such as oak and beech.
		Sweet chestnuts are at home in a temperate climate while shunning excessively cold and wet habitats.
		Commercial chestnuts are derived from a cultivated variety, which yields one large nut per shell, rather than two or three as in the wild species.
	www.sacredearth.com /ethnobotany/foraging/chestnut.php (1837 words)

	SweetChestnutBloom
		The Sweet Chestnut is a species of chestnut from a medium-sized to large deciduous tree.
		Sweet Chestnut is often indicated in drug addiction or suicide therapy, when the individual feels that he or she has hit "rock bottom." It can be indicated for many other extreme conditions, such as the death of a loved one or realization that one has a life-threatening illness.
		The positive qualities of Sweet Chestnut are: Spiritual depth, faith derived from encountering adversity; and solitude rooted in spiritual communion.
	www.juniperhollow.com /SweetChestnutBloom.html (393 words)

	Bach's Four Chestnut Types and How They Handle Change
		Chestnut Bud individuals, in particular, may surprise us with how quickly their potential unfolds with the gentle catalyst of this essence.
		Sweet Chestnut, to me, deserves its name, for it can help restore the sweetness to life even in its bleakest hours.
		Those who are helped out of a profound state of despair by Sweet Chestnut sometimes wind up needing other Chestnut remedies further along in their recovery, in order to gain additional tools for coping with change.
	www.floweressencemagazine.com /feb03/chestnuts.html (1180 words)

	Sweet Chestnut
		Nowadays, when the sweet chestnut vendor appears on city streets, it is a sure sign that winter is arriving.
		Chestnut leaves also furnish a tea that soothes irritated mucous membranes and hence relieves the symptoms of whooping cough or any cough due to irritation.
		Sweet chestnut is cultivated for its wood and for its nuts, which are collected in the autumn.
	www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_sweet_chestnut.htm (461 words)

	Floridata: Castanea sativa
		Spanish chestnut is not quite as susceptible to chestnut blight as is American chestnut, and apparently the disease cannot tolerate the cooler, wetter summers of northern Europe, England and the American Pacific Northwest.
		Chestnuts have both male and female flowers on the same tree but they are largely self-incompatible so you need at least two trees to get nuts.
		The Italians made polenta from chestnut flour before the introduction of corn from the New World, and before potatoes were introduced, chestnuts were the basic food of the poor in much of southern Europe.
	www.floridata.com /ref/C/cast_sat.cfm (591 words)

	Sweet Chestnut Information / Castanea sativa / European Chestnut / Spanish Chestnut
		For hundreds of years, the sweet, shiny nuts of this tree were a major source of food to the rural poor of southern Europe where the chestnut tree grew.
		Sweet Chestnut is rich in starch, oils, and vitamins, B1, B2, and C. The leaves, twigs, bark, flower clusters and the spiky cases of the nuts are astringent.
		Sweet Chestnut is generally regarded as safe when taken in the recommended doses.
	www.herbalremedies.com /sweet-chestnut-information.html (572 words)

	Sweet Chestnut
		Sweet chestnut can be a large tree up to 30 m in height, with a single trunk but is often coppiced to form a shrub of many straight poles.
		Poles from coppiced woodland were formerly used in the hop gardens of Kent: they are still used for chestnut fencing.
		Chestnut wood is similar to oak and can be turned into beams and panelling.
	www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk /trees/chestnut.htm (204 words)

	Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales and Northern Ireland Home Page
		The sweet or Spanish chestnut is not native to Britain but was probably first transported from the Mediterranean and Asia Minor by the Romans.
		Sweet chestnut flowers after practically all other trees, as late as the end of June and early July.
		The chestnuts ripen rapidly in their protective capsules and are ready to drop by September.
	www.rfs.org.uk /thirdlevel.asp?ThirdLevel=65&SecondLevel=34 (335 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Chestnut, Horse - Herb Profile and Information
		The Horse Chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum, which has also been known as Hippocastanum vulgare (Gaertn.), is an entirely different tree from the Sweet Chestnut, to which it is not even distantly related, and is of much more recent importation to English soil.
		The fruit is a brown nut, with a very shining, polished skin, showing a dull, rough, pale-brown scar where it has been attached to the inside of the seed-vessel, a large green husk, protected with short spines, which splits into three valves when it falls to the ground and frees the nut.
		It is concluded that Horse Chestnuts are not poisonous to any of the farm animals experimented with, within the limits of what they can be induced to eat, and that they form a highly nutritious food.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/c/chehor58.html (1160 words)

	Sweet Chestnut Bach Flower Essence
		The one who needs Sweet Chestnut flower essence is tested literally to the breaking point of endurance.
		Sweet Chestnut flower essence is often indicated in drug addiction or suicide therapy, when the individual feels that he or she has hit "rock bottom."
		Sweet Chestnut flower essence helps the soul surrender and open to a new spiritual identity.
	www.anandaapothecary.com /english/sweet-chestnut-flower-essence.html (239 words)

	Chestnuts come in many different varieties; Sweet Chestnut, Forest Chestnut, Orchard Chestnuts...
		Efforts are currently being made at Meadowview in Virginia by the American Chestnut Foundation to "bring the American chestnut back" as a forest tree again through a back cross technique using a highly fungus resistant Chinese chestnut as a source of resistance genes.
		The Chinese chestnut cannot be used as a reforestation tree simply because it does not reach the height of the American native and would never be able to dominate the forest.
		Pure American chestnut trees are grown in tissue culture and "hit" with a packet of genes that will provide a very high level of fungal resistance to the trees.
	www.songonline.ca /nuts/chestnut.htm (984 words)

	Sweet chestnut - a tree for grower and gourmet
		Also known as Spanish chestnut, it is a Mediterranean species and a number of places lay claim to its Latin name - Castanea sativa - including the ancient city of Kastanaia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and the towns of Castanea and Castana in Greece.
		Planted on the right site, sweet chestnut is windfirm and is relatively disease free although the threat of chestnut blight - currently causing damage in southern Europe - cannot be ruled out.
		Sweet chestnut is now an honorary native species in Britain and while it is unlikely to achieve that status here, it deserves a more prominent place in Irish forestry.
	www.farmersjournal.ie /2006/0211/farmmanagement/forestry/feature.shtml (735 words)

	Search for sweet chestnut products
		Sweet chestnut wood has good technical characteristics such as being very durable and easy to work with.
		Sweet chestnut now forms a small but stable part of the internal market and is imported mainly from France, followed by Great Britain, Belgium and Germany.
		Most imported wood must be stripped of bark because of the danger of importing the dreaded disease known as sweet chestnut blight 'Cryphonectria parasitica'.
	www.robinia.nl /leafletter/sweet_chestnut.html (299 words)

	Collie Crosses behind Shelties
		This was a tricolor with a crooked blaze called Chestnut Sweet Lady in the first breeding and Rubislaw Lady Fayre in the second, both breedings being to the unregistered Sheltie Chestnut Rainbow, a full brother to Catherine Coleman's Kilravock Lassie.
		Chestnut Sweet Lady's sons Chestnut Lucky Boy, Rollo of Redbraes and Nut of Houghton Hill are behind the surviving CHE lines, and the BB lines all go through sons of bitches closely descended from Chestnut Sweet Lady.
		Both Teena and Chestnut Sweet Lady were mentioned as having a good deal of blue merle breeding behind them, and at least some of the Collie crosses seem to have been made as much with the goal of bringing the blue merle color into the Sheltie breed as to improve type.
	bowlingsite.mcf.com /Colliecross.html (1753 words)

	Sweet Chestnut and Other Bach Remedies for Discouragement
		Sweet Chestnut: For extreme anguish, the feeling that one has reached the limits of one's endurance.
		In the Sweet Chestnut condition there is often a sense of tumult and chaos; it is as if the interior emotional landscape is the scene of a hurricane or tornado.
		Sweet Chestnut can be the state that comes to people just prior to the initiation of a period of spiritual development.
	www.floweressencemagazine.com /nov04/sweetchestnut.html (1399 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Chestnut, Sweet - Herb Profile and Information
		The famous Tortworth Chestnut, in Gloucestershire, was a landmark in the boundary records compiled in the reign of John, and was already known as the Great Chestnut of Tortworth in the days of Stephen.
		Many of the trees forming the vast Chestnut forests on the slopes of Mount Etna are said to be even larger.
		In the Mediterranean region the Chestnut flourishes luxuriantly.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/c/cheswe59.html (1132 words)

	Wedding tiaras, handcrafted jewellery and bridal jewellery from Sweet Chestnut Designs
		Terms of payment are at Sweet Chestnut Design's sole discretion, and unless otherwise agreed to by Sweet Chestnut Designs is advance, payment must be received by Sweet Chestnut Designs prior to Sweet Chestnut Design's acceptance of an order.
		Sweet Chestnut Designs Products and Services are purchased directly from Sweet Chestnut Designs by an end-user Customer and may be returned by Customer if the Customer notifies the offices of Sweet Chestnut Designs of their intention to return the Product or Service within 24 hours of the Customers receipt of the Product or Service.
		As Sweet Chestnut Designs' products are all hand made to order some variance in size and shape is to be expected.
	www.sweetchestnutdesigns.com /terms.htm (838 words)

	SWEET CHESTNUT : Encyclopedia Entry
		The durable wood is used to make furniture, barrels (sometimes used to age balsamic vinegar), fencing and roof beams in houses of the Alpujarra, Spain; due to its tendency to split and warp badly, it is not used in large pieces.
		Ancient coppice of a sweet chestnut, Banstead Woods, Surrey
		Sweet chestnut coppice as previous as seen from other side
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Sweet_Chestnut (381 words)

	About Sweet Chestnut Designs: handcrafted bridal tiaras and jewellery
		Sweet Chestnut Designs is based 12 miles from the market town of Biggar, in rural South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
		This Sunday afternoon experiment was sitting on the coffee table about to be dismantled and the beads recycled for another project when some friends visited and convinced her to make some more designs as they liked the first one so much that they decided that Catherine’s tiaras would sell in the bridal world.
		Evelyn White came aboard Sweet Chestnut Designs during the spring of 2005 purely to source the beads and findings for this range and also to advise on style and design.
	www.sweetchestnutdesigns.com /about.htm (256 words)

	DISTRIBUTION AND HEALTH CONDITION OF SWEET CHESTNUT (CASTANEA SATIVA MILL.) IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
		Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) is widespread in the Czech Republic.
		The data about tree position (using GPS), the girth, the total height and the state of health, completion of photography were digitized on the virtual map of the sweet chestnut occurrence.
		This disease occurs both on the sweet chestnut and on oaks.
	www.actahort.org /books/693/693_18.htm (217 words)

	3D 3ds Sweet Chestnut XfrogPlants
		The Sweet Chestnut has been diffused all over Europe by the Romans.
		Because of the fruits, it was cultivated since a very ancient age, even before the cereals were.
		In the Middle Ages, sweet chestnuts were the main food source for the populations of Southern Europe.
	www.turbosquid.com /FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/285587/SID/284620/blFP/1 (183 words)

	Sweet Chestnut Bach Flower Remedy, 20 ml (0.70 fl. oz.) Tincture, Bach ® Flower Essence Castanea Sativa
		Sweet Chestnut (Castanea Sativa) is the Bach Flower Remedy for people who have reached the limits of their endurance, who have explored all avenues but see no way out of their difficulties, and who feel that there is nothing left for them but annihilation and emptiness.
		Whereas people in a Gorse state have fallen into a state of hopelessness when there are actually possible solutions all around, the person in a Sweet Chestnut state is genuinely at the end of the line: theirs is appalling, final despair.
		Sweet Chestnut Usage: Take two drops in a small glass of water and sip at intervals or take directly under tongue.
	www.herbalremedies.com /sweetches10v.html (676 words)

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