North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Stefan Brandle <sbrandle@css.tayloru.edu>]

"Lon J. Rombough" said "I have a PDF file of the most recent list from
there." ["there" being the American Society for Horticultural Science].

I tried poking around their web site and was quite unsuccessful in finding that PDF file. 

(1) Could you point me in the right direction? 
(2) Or is it one of those things in the "member's only" part of their web site?
(3) Is the PDF file something that you are permitted to make available to the 
rest of us?

I've tried finding patent info at the USPO (www.uspto.gov) and it's pretty 
hard. I arbitrarily tried hunting for Gold Rush which I know to be a PRI 
Co-op apple. It seems like you have to already know a lot about the fruit 
before you can actually search for it. You can supposedly search via 
www.firstgov.gov, but even that has me pretty much stumped. (I gave up on 
Gold Rush. My guess is that I need to find the patent number and then do the 
search.)

My guess is that the best approach is to find a friendly grower who knows the 
details and can help you. I did find one localish grower who was willing to 
tell me what the royalty details were and was willing to accept the payment 
from me and then bundle it in with his when he made his payments. It would be 
really nice if there were a central clearing house where that could be easily 
done. Maybe there is, but I haven't heard of it yet.

-- sb
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