Why has the chestnut tree been used as a symbol for the blacksmith?
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As a forestry student, I learned that this tree was thought to be a horsechestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum, not an American chestnut, Castanea dentata, though I never knew for sure.
A very good story in the National Geographic by Rebecca Rupp tells us of the history of American chestnut as a food source, and of work under way at SUNY ESF, my alma mater, to revive the American chestnut through genetic engineering. This is important work and I am glad to see it covered so well in the National Geographic. The story begins:
“Perhaps the most quoted line about a chestnut tree in all of American history is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Under the spreading chestnut tree/The village smithy stands” from “The Village Blacksmith.” In 1842, when Longfellow penned his poem, the American chestnut (Castanea dentate) was in its prime.”
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