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[Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>]

Nick Botner's collection in Oregon is larger, 
with something like 4000 varieties of apples, 
pears, grapes, plums and cherries if I remember well.
There was a discussion recently here about the 
fact that - unfortunately - he is now selling his 
property. From what I understand, Mr. Botner is 
now in his mid-80's and can't maintain such a large orchard anymore.
His list of varieties is on the internet, you 
will find it easily with a search on his name.
Claude Jolicoeur

Le 22:39 12.01.30, vous avez écrit:
> I gather from Jerry Lehman’s mail to Group that 
> Mr. Gene Wild has a collection of 800 apple 
> varieties.  I guess that it it must be the 
> LARGEST collection owned by an individual.
>
> Am, I right?  Or any of you know about a larger collection.
>
> It requires great passion to build such a large 
> collection of varieties as it is not a good 
> commercial strategy.  In India, kings and big 
> landlords used to build large collection of 
> mango varieties but here I have not heard a 
> collection bigger than of 350 mango 
> varieties.  However, 400 years ago there once 
> existed a mango orchard which had one lakh 
> (100,000) mango trees and it was called Lakh 
> Bagh (bagh=orchard).  But it was got planted by the great Moghul Emperor Akbar.
>
> I keep collecting such bits of information for 
> my “Fruit Factp  which I publish weekly in 
> Fruitipedia and one Indian newspaper.  I think 
> Gene’s collection can feature in that if it the 
> largest collection by an individual.