yes i hope to ID all by RNA testing , this well ID even the hybrids . and fred Ashworth was known as the father of modern grafting LOL you are very lucky many that read fred's work started trying home grafting .often came to the reallity that grafting can hybrid almost any tree if the basics controlled ....we have some trees that have as many as 35 grafts on one tree .and yes the wolf river was hybrided as it was for cold weather in northern NY ...bill mackentley comes every year to collect nuts from the 2 farms .8-9 diffrent black walnuts , butternuts . bush hazel nuts, Ashworth bur oak ,,horse chest nuts, hickey ,few people get the chance to look behind the nurseries .at the base stock that gives brith to full grown nurseis .i learned grafting from fred if i can not make this project work no one could ....

many of the trees sold by the nursies are from bills work and are for human use....

sadly the cost has taken the work in the cash dirrection and away from the fred's true love of wild life ....

i say that openly but in the latter years fred hated deer . because the damge they had on the trees. he just had not realized that his work had a never ending effect on the local deer in this area ....

the land and water supply prodict around 4,000 trees ,some well be from the nursies for human and the rest well be from these two farms ...

as well as a collection of the nut trees...

take care of your trees and they well take care of you .

stay safe stay free

ps farm hunter have you ever herd of a plant called comfrey ,.. its and old world strain of plant used as cow feed in the old days . the deer eat it level to the ground , it takes almost no care to grow ... and comes back year after year for the past 37 years i know of ...

"stated that your trees had winter pear and apple grafted to the same tree " do you know why I do ... fred found that the winter pear thorn varieties could rise the ablities of the trees to with stand colder temps ...often trees grafter with the winter pear would not bear fruit on the graft yet after time the tree it self became more cold weather friendly ......in freds early year he went all over the world studing trees and all over the state of NY .. your very lucky to have a collection like that one ,, they are more rare than most know ....and yes that apple is in fact a hybrid wolf river one of the only full sized apples in the area .being a strong grower it was planted in the area to judge envirmental effects on the tree ...often not effected by cold temps ....