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  • From: John Henderson <jhenderson@ithaca.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:52:45 -0400

You can find a wealth of information from the old reports and bulletins of the state agricultural experiment stations and horticultural commissions. Many of them are available online through Google Books: http://books.google.com/ . When you limit your search to the "full view only" sources, you commonly get the materials that are no longer protected by copyright, so that should include materials that are a century old. I've found quite a lot from New York State. I haven't tried California.

Try some different combinations of terms such as:
fruit apples grapes [other fruits you are interested in]
san francisco california
experiment station bulletin

John Henderson
Sage Hen Farm
Lodi, NY

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From: Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 2:01:51 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History

Once upon a time the SF Bay Area grew loads & loads of fruit. I'm interested in finding out what varieties used to be grown here but I really don't know how to go about such research. I assume such records aren't just laying around at the public library. Should I be trying to see if there are any century-old nurseries around that still have records? Should I be talking to folks at UC Davis and other ag departments? I'm not even sure I have the time to do obscure research like this but I think it would be really interesting to find out. I


Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA





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