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["Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>]

Hello All,

As a former regular member of this list before the practical side of 
orcharding and breeding took over all my time, I know that many of you like 
to experiment with new and unusual fruits, as I do.  So I come to you now 
looking for an unusual peach cultivar, 'Compac-Red Haven', to use in my peach 
breeding program for cold MN climates. The variety came about as a single 
gene mutant found in a block of Red Haven peaches in the early 1970's. The 
new cultivar is characterized by short internodes (many branches), 20%-30% 
shorter tree height and a horizontal spreading branching habit. These things 
combine to make it a very bushy tree form, which is the characteristic I want 
to introduce into my breeding. The traditional Red Haven qualities of early 
ripening and some hardiness also contribute to it's desirability for northern 
regions. It is not particularly productive and fruit quality is variable. 

Compac-Red Haven was licensed to Van Well Nursery and later to Stark and 
Bountiful Ridge Nurseries and many trees were sold in the 80's and 90's, 
mostly in ones and twos to backyard orchardists. It is not in any repository 
or in any government or University breeding programs at this time and the 
mother trees of the nurseries that propagated and sold it have been removed, 
or in the case of Bountiful Ridge, the nursery is no longer in business. 
Where it was tested and used for breeding it has been discarded, to the best 
of my knowledge based on an exhaustive search. I would think that there are a 
great many Compac-Red Havens still growing in people's back yards around the 
country and that, I believe, is the last best hope for finding it. So if you 
have it, think you might have it, think you might know somebody who has it, 
or even somebody who has a peach "bush" with fruit that ripens with Red Haven 
I would greatly appreciate your contacting me off list. Thank you.

Dave Griffin
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Anyone know where to obtain US native hops (Humulus
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Have you looked at  GRIN?  The US collection of hops is at the
Corvallis, OR branch.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association
"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
A video about The Grape Grower :
http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/

On Feb 8, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Steven Covacci wrote:

Anyone know where to obtain wild US native hops (Humulus lupulus var.
lupuloides), as opposed to the European cultivars or hybrids between
the two?


Thanks,


Steve
USDA zone 6b/7a; New Jersey
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