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[Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>]

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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> 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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