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["Dr.O'Barr" <Topgun@Otelco.net>]

Donna:

I have a TENN pear growing and a Tenn Fig. Know nothing of the background, 
sorry. They should both bear this year for the first time.

Richard O'Barr
Zone 7


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tenn pear


> Does anyone have the faintest idea what this pear was called or numbered
> when it was either released, or not released?  Or even what year it came
> out?  I know of two trees, and they are very good.    But it is rather
> frustrating to not know more about them.  If Sherwood Akin was the source,
> he was buddies with a USDA breeder in SC, and I guess the variety could 
> have
> slipped out that way.  Other things slipped out in similar ways, things 
> that
> we taxpayers paid to have produced, but the plant breeders didn't see fit 
> to
> release.  I've read that the Murcott, a fantastic citrus cross, would 
> never
> have been released by the USDA these days, because they tree has got
> problems.   Because in the old days they had to work more with comercial
> growers, the stock was already in the hands of the public.     Donna
>
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