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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> But Hector, I'm sorry to say that the USDA autumnberry project at Beltsville, 
> although highly successful, has been abandoned. The principal investigator 
> has left, his assistant has retired, and the plantation has been eradicated. 
> I wrote to both of them seeking cuttings of their most successful cultivars, 
> several of which apparently were spectacular producers, and was told none had 
> been preserved (not even in a germ plasm repository!). When I wrote back 
> asking the reason for this extraordinary, I received no reply.
>   


What a waste! That's really a shame, Hank.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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