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  • From: Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>, "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Artist revives Marshall strawberry
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:48:36 -0700

To the list,

Picking through Google, it was reported that Marshall was devastated after World War II by viruses from abroad. It was also said to have a short shelf life, so not of interest to modern commercial growers. Thus, no doubt, only small private collections survived. The nicest story I found was that 800 boxes of Marshalls were shipped from Bainbridge Island, Wash., to Vancouver, B.C. in the summer of 1939 for the royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Betty Mayfield
northwest Oregon

At 04:13 PM 8/30/2011, Naomi Counides wrote:
Here is the link for requesting it from the repository
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/search.pl?accid=%20PI+551842
Naomi

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:10 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Artist revives Marshall strawberry

I love the story behind it, but I'm finding it a little hard to believe that
there would only be 3 plants left at NCGR & then they sent them to her...


Here's what wikipedia has to say about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_strawberry


This article suggests that it was mislabeled in several of the USDA
collections.

http://theworldlink.com/news/local/article_a6224b1f-fe78-5cbe-bb7b-f661b92fc
684.html


Gotta love a juicy mystery.

~mIEKAL





On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org> wrote:
> See
> <http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/203654237/marshall-and-me>
>
> She sounds like a real American go-getter.
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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