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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

My dictionaries list this use of “Oxheart” as meaning any of a number of large, sweet, heart-shaped cherries.  I found a reference to an heirloom oxheart cherry, Belle of Santa Fe – but no sources that specifically call a specific variety “Oxheart.’

 

~ Stephen

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lon J. Rombough
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:05 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Oxheart Cherries

 

Just found that there is an online version of the classic 12 volume work on Burbank, Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application at
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=browse&scope=HistSciTech.LutherBurbank

Many thanks to the U. of Wisconsin for making the set available. It might contain a picture or other reference to the Oxheart cherry.
There was also a list of all of Burbank's creations put out by U.C. Berkely many years ago, but I haven't been able to find that online.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Jan 5, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

Luther Burbank bred sweet cherries and I'm pretty sure one of them was named Oxheart. Since Burbank was in Santa Rosa, California it's easily possible your mother could have encountered his varieties in Woodland, California since they aren't that far apart.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:15 PM, cmbarley@inreach.com wrote:

Hi,
I have been on this list a while but lurking, trying to absorb a small
part of all of the knowledge you people have to share. My mother is in
her 80's and talks about an Oxheart cherry that they ate when she was a
little girl. I have searched the internet and can find no references.
Does anyone know if the is the description of the fruit, or an actual
variety, or where I might find more information?
Thanks,
Cliff Barley
Woodland, CA