From: "Phil Payne" 

"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:55:11 -0500, "John Beamish"
>  wrote:
>
> >"Fifty years?  Then start now!" was the Duke's reply.
>
> I think that what a few plantation owners in the old south must have
> thought when they planted the long avenues of oaks,  In Charlotte
> there are some gigantic willow oaks that were planted with future
> generations in mind.

I mentioned the Dukes of Devonshire, so I checked.

They regard a crop of beech as "harvestable" at 200 years.

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