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From: buls@dataio.UUCP (Rick Buls)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: NG| Silver Fir
Message-ID: <1063@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 13:29:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 13 13:29:49 1986
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In article <4751@decwrl.DEC.COM> ferwerda@scotty.dec.com writes:
>Some relatives just gave us two silver fir seedlings from the slopes of Mt.
>Shasta in Washington. Since we live in Franklin, MA, I was wondering if there

	Mt. Shasta is in California!

>were any special things I could do to raise the chances of their growing up
>successfully?


	Fir like soil that is well drained, not standing water. It fact
	they don't like alot of water, grow well here where the summers
	are very dry. I would protect them from the winter weather for
	the first few years.