Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

There's his book, Old Southern Apples, by Creighton Lee Calhoun (Hardcover
- Oct 1996) 2 Used & new from CDN$ 131.14 - if you want to spend that kind
of money ;-)
http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-ca&field-author=Cr
eighton%20Lee%20Calhoun&page=1

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 5/28/2007 at 8:30 AM Larry Lombard wrote:

>how would i get more info on this apple source?thank you,larry
>
>
>>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>>Reply-To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing 
>><livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>>To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>>Subject: [Livingontheland] The Genius of Apples
>>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:46:39 -0600
>>
>>The Genius of Apples
>>OCTOBER 4, 2000
>>
>>There's a hearty band of hunters ransacking the South, says Lee Calhoun,
>>hunting for old Southern apples. They are tracking down apple trees in
the
>>front yards of old country homes that may disappear tomorrow. Time is
>>running out for these hunters. Of the 1,400 apple varieties known to have
>>originated in the South, only about 200 are still known to exist. "The
>>others are totally extinct," says Calhoun, "and when that happens, you
>lose
>>a whole apple. Most of these trees were planted in the early 1900s. I'd
>say
>>we only have about five years left to find them."
>>
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