[NAFEX] Old-timers and old pears
Lucky Pittman
lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Sat May 30 21:21:13 EDT 2009
Donna,
While you're picking old-timers' brains about old pear & apple
varieties, it might be worth your time to talk to Dr. David Griffith,
the retired dentist from Dadeville, AL who's now living in my
hometown of Opelika.
He had(or still has) an extensive collection of old Southern pears -
I got Ledbetter, Galloway, Big Mama, Sen. Clark and Dixie Delight
from him years ago; after he described them in POMONA and offered scionwood.
You've got a head-start on the research on selections that might be
worth having, and all the right questions.
Dr. Griffith also has a collection of superior Southern-origin
timber-type black walnut selections that he'd collected over at least
a quarter-century. I saw an ad in the NNGA Nutshell sometime in the
last year where he was advertising for someone to purchase or lease
his walnut collection and his progeny-test orchard of seedlings.
Dr. David N. Griffith
305 Guinevere Ct,
Opelika, AL.
Phone: 334-741-4184
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