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Wow!! This worked!  Sort of...

I got results from the internal search-engine only after I checked BOTH the 
'Active' & 'Inactive' boxes.  This is the first time I've ever gotten the 
GRIN system to work AT ALL.

I was able to find a newer page, the 'Updated" page for the item, which 
contained even LESS info than what I'd found previously.

Thanks very much for your help.  I hope to try it again on something which 
has more info in GRIN.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Joe Hecksel" <>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] GRIN help?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:34:28 -0500

>

http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/acc/acc_queries.html

Query on species name or a common cultivar of the species.  I.e, Concord, 
Bartlett, Allstar, Fuji....

Click on hyperlink for species at top, Malus domestica , or whatever.

-or-

more interesting, click on Observations link.

find the attribute you are interested in

Click on Observed values

Click on the histogram "bin" that most interests you.
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Cultivar descriptions are spotty.  Some are well fleshed out

(Cornish Aromatic) apple
Narrative
Comments:: Size medium to large 60-73; 50-65 mm; shape flat to inter- 
mediate truncate-conic to conic, convex, ribbed at eye and on body; skin 
yellow flushed orange and red, and striped deeper red with russet dots and 
patches, rough. Flesh firm, crisp, fine, creamy white; flavor sweet, 
subacid, aromatic; season late. Tree: vigorous, upright, spreading. Produces 
spurs freely.

and some are sparse

Seyve Villard 7-111
Narrative
Blue berry, medium size. Medium-large compact cluster. Average vine size, 
good production. Winter hardy.

Good luck!

-Joe

>
>
> Well, a chance google-search showed me how to get into the accessions/ 
fruit
> descriptions pages, but sometimes there's nothing in the 'narrative'
> paragraph-- the one which describes the tree & fruit.  Sometimes it 
contains
> only the comment : "record owned by PGQO on GRIN"
>
> I tried more internet searches for this, and all I could find was various
> lists of ARS distributions data, w/o any real content.  Can anyone 
describe
> how to find a fruit description paragraph buried somewhere in the 
apparently
> huge PGQO database?
>
>