Bob's News & Musings: Pinus virginiana ‘Wate’s Golden’

"Layne Ziegenfuss had considerable influence on me when I started collecting rare and unusual conifers. He was an enthusiastic conifer collector who owned Hillside Nursery in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. We became good friends and he taught me how to graft and shared much of his conifer knowledge with me. I met Ziegenfuss in 1975 when he was scaling down his operation to a custom graft production facility. He had stopped producing field and container grown conifers for sale. His older plants were maintained as sources of scion wood. At one time his collection numbered over 2000 different cultivars and if any were lost from his collection he could still access the original plant for cuttings."

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Article presented courtesy of ACS member Bob Fincham, and originally posted at https://www.robertfincham.com/.