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[Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

I think the Renfro Texas grape wine industry newspaper article is OK. 
It certainly shows how a NAFEX explorer's work leads to something bigger.

In the plum interest area, I'd like to see this article run in the pomona:
.pdf version:
http://www.usask.ca/agriculture/plantsci/dom_fruit/articles/plums.pdf
or as an .html version:
 Plums on the Prairies

As a survivor of growing hybrid plums, there's a lot of wisdom in this article.

Charlie Paradise

Jacquelyn Kuehn wrote:

...and is this something we should print in Pomona?

Jackie

On Jul 31, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

     There is a direct NAFEX connection here because the late W.E. Dancy, who was a major player in collecting Munson varieties for the Munson Memorial Vineyard, was a founder of NAFEX.
     -Lon Rombough

     Roy E. Renfro Jr.
     Professor bolsters legacy of North Texan who saved French wine industry
     03:58 PM CDT on Saturday, July 30, 2005
     By DIANA KUNDE / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
     More than a century ago, a tall North Texan won a French Legion of Honor medal for his role in rescuing the French wine industry from the deadly pest phylloxera. Thomas Volney "T.V." Munson, a Denison horticulturist, helped the French find disease-resistant native Texas grapes that could be grafted with French vines.
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