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Acorn Planting Tradition — Collingwood Oaks

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Acorn Planting Tradition — Collingwood Oaks

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A first-rate in the Victory class under sail.

Overview

The habit is already on Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography under Personal Life. Collingwood carried acorns in his coat pocket on shore walks and pressed them into soil where an oak might grow.1

The Habit

This note covers that pocket-acorn habit only. Surviving oaks, later counts, and later-navy timber stay off. The pocket wording already quoted on the Collingwood note is not recopied here.

It is complementary to English Oak — Shipbuilding Timber — Victory frames, Wealden Forest, about 6,000 trees — not a duplicate. English Elm — Shipbuilding Timber, Wealden Forest — Timber Source, and Teredo Worm — Hull Degradation stay red-links.2

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Footnotes

  1. Acorns in the coat pocket on shore walks; pressed into soil where an oak might grow: Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography (Personal Life). Paraphrase only. ↩

  2. Victory frames; Wealden; about 6,000 trees: English Oak — Shipbuilding Timber. Do not invent surviving oaks, later timber, or counts. Elm / Wealden / Teredo stay red-links. ↩

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