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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] USDA Pomological Watercolors
  • Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 03:34:06 +0000

It's a cultural thing (or lack thereof). Too many people don't care about the info/knowledge, or don't have a clue; but they do know that they want to buy pretty. BSO (Bright Shiny Object) Syndrome.

Tanis


From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] USDA Pomological Watercolors
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:36:43 -0700

This is wonderful. Now, if someone would just print THOSE up, maybe print
dealers would stop cutting up old books, like The Pears of New York just for
the color pictures.
-Lon Rombough

> From: "Joseph D. Postman" <postmanj@ucs.orst.edu>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>, Apple-Crop <apple-crop@virtualorchard.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] USDA Pomological Watercolors
>
>
> You should be interested to know about the collection of historic
> Pomological Watercolors that were produced by USDA artists to document new
> fruit introductions before the advent of color photography. There are
> more than 7000 of these images stored at the National Agriclutural Library
> in Beltsville, MD. I am happy to announce that all 350 of the pear images
> from this collection, and a handful of the other crops, have been scanned
> and are available on the web. Our repository has an index page with
> links to the pear and other images at:
>
> http://www.ars-grin.gov/cor/pwc.html
>
> The National Agricultural Library also has some representative pomological
> images available at:
>
> http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/pomology.html
>
> I think you will enjoy knowing about this resource,
>
> - Joseph
>
> ____________________________________
> Joseph D. Postman
> USDA/Agricultural Research Service
> National Clonal Germplasm Repository
> Corvallis, Oregon USA
> jpostman@ars-grin.gov
>
>
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