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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

It might be worth contacting the  Church to see if the farm could be a 
Monastery.  The Brothers would care for such a collection.  I know a 
monastery on the site of an old farm and the Brothers have maintained some 
wonderful old trees on the place.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at 
http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner  GWA "Best Talent in Writing"  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 Jan 6, 2012, at 8:14 PM, sherwin wrote:

On 1/6/2012 7:16 PM, david.maxwell@dal.ca wrote:
> Nick has apparently decided to quit.  His property, with trees, beasts, and 
> beautiful house is
> advertised for sale.  This raises a significant question, which harkens 
> back to a posting I
> made a week or two ago:  what is going to happen to his collection, which 
> is billed as "the
> largest private collection in the Milky way".  He has something in the 
> order of 4000 cultivars.
> Compare this with the Geneva repository, who apparently have about 1500.  
> That is, there
> are about 2500 cultivars in Nick's orchard that do not even exist in the 
> official government
> germplasm repository.  With luck somebody will buy Nick's place who will 
> maintain the
> collection.  But there is a real risk that some rich developer or something 
> could buy it and
> bulldoze the whole thing, with the loss of all this material.
> 
    It would be interesting to see even a partial list of the more 
interesting varieties Nick has.

   Someone should approach whatever State he lives in for interest in 
making it a state park.  Also,
   a nearby university may want to take it over.

                                                  Sherwin Dubren