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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

Donna,
While you're picking old-timers' brains about old pear & apple
varieties, it might be worth your time to talk to Dr. David Griffith, the
retired dentist from Dadeville, AL who's now living in my hometown of
Opelika.  
He had(or still has) an extensive collection of old Southern pears - I
got Ledbetter, Galloway, Big Mama, Sen. Clark and Dixie Delight from him
years ago; after he described them in POMONA and offered scionwood.
You've got a head-start on the research on selections that might be worth
having, and all the right questions.
  
Dr. Griffith also has a collection of superior Southern-origin
timber-type black walnut selections that he'd collected over at least a
quarter-century.  I saw an ad in the NNGA Nutshell sometime in the
last year where he was advertising for someone to purchase or lease his
walnut collection and his progeny-test orchard of seedlings.

Dr. David N. Griffith 
305 Guinevere Ct, 
Opelika, AL. 
Phone: 334-741-4184