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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:39:36 -0500
Megan,
I've been doing the same kind of
thing here, and it's not easy. Look up your subject on Worldcat and on
Googlebooks. There are older books from the big horticultural fad in the
1980's that have been scanned online. After 1900 it seems that the
nation's attention turned away from agriculture and horticulture toward
machinery, and the farmers were left in a kind of backwater. There's
actually an article put out by a nursery that is archived in a college library
in GA titled "Pineapple, the pear that does not blight". Now I have to
twist some arms or something to get a photocopy sent to the local college
library (that's how I've done it before, thru TTU staff) so maybe I can find out
the origin of the mysterious but formerly well known "Pineapple" pear. The
fact that there is a long brown one and an apple shaped green one
creates a mystery that really needs solving. Which was the original?
Which the imposter, and where did the imposter come from? I have the round
green variety that matches a 1926 watercolor, and mine come from trees planted
in 1903. But it gets blight. So maybe the article will explain the
origin of the long brown pear under the same name. Corvallis's pear did
not match their historical painting so they removed it when I said I could
provide a pear to match it. But now I wonder if they had the OTHER
pineapple pear.
Also Megan, if you could find
for me the records that Van Fleet had for the parentage of the Orient pear, I
would be grateful. He did the breeding work out in CA, but it was grown
and released here in TN. I suspect Comice parentage, but the TN release
says something about his records being confusing. Hope this helps
you, and maybe if you look for the Orient info you'll get some practice.
Some of the very best records are the old ag bulletins, which are mostly
available only in hard copy back in the stacks. These could provide the
subject matter for many a Pomona article. Donna
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[NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Spidra Webster, 06/09/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Lon J. Rombough, 06/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Kevin Moore, 06/09/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Road's End Farm, 06/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Kieran &/or Donna, 06/11/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Kieran &/or Donna, 06/11/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
John Henderson, 06/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Spidra Webster, 06/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Kieran &/or Donna, 06/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Spidra Webster, 06/10/2009
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