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  • From: mark wessel <growyourown@earthlink.net>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: John McCuan <wawo@yahoo.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Seedling trees
  • Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:50:42 -0500

Below is a link to the "Wild Apples" . Three parts. Two and Three are linked
from the first.
Excellent step back in time. Looking forward to finish reading.

Mark



http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/1862nov/186211thoreau.htm



On Nov 12, 2012, at 1:44 PM, John Bunker wrote:

> One of the best writings on seedling apples is by Henry David
> Thoreau. It's called "Wild Apples". He wrote it just as grafting was
> gaining popularity and the seedling orchards were becoming a thing of
> the past. It's short and well worth the read.
>
> John Bunker
> Fedco
> john@fedcoseeds.com
> www.fedcoseeds.com
> PO Box 520
> Waterville ME 04903
> 207 426-9900
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> Visit Fedco Trees on Facebook
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> On Nov 12, 2012, at 1:38 PM, John McCuan wrote:
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>>
>> I find this topic very interesting. How would I find more
>> information on the benefits of seedling trees?
>>
>> Intuitively, it makes sense to me -
>>
>> Melinda McCuan
>>
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>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. Re: Fwd: Johny A. (Douglas Hinds)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:46:48 -0600
>> From: Douglas Hinds <cedecor@gmx.net>
>> Subject: Re: [nafex] Fwd: Johny A.
>> To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Cc: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
>> Message-ID: <50A00EB8.809@gmx.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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>> On 11/11/2012 10:29 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:
>>> From: Alan Haigh<alandhaigh@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM
>>> Subject: Johny A.
>>> To:nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org
>>>
>>>>> That isn't to take away from Johnny. He was an apple authority
>>>>> and went
>>>> around the country helping folks and propagated popular varieties
>>>> by grafting.
>>> Actually, according to Pollan's book, Johny thought grafting was
>>> devil's
>>> work and that God wanted trees to grow just as they were from seed.
>> God and Johnny aren't the only ones. Count me in on that two.
>>
>> How important is it to me? I left the USA due to the relative
>> dearth of
>> fruit from seedling trees there in 1974 and I still don't eat fruit
>> from
>> trees that _aren't_ on their own roots. In fact, fruit from seedling
>> trees is the principle staple food of my diet and at 70, I have not
>> yet
>> begun to go downhill.
>>
>> An article explaining the reasons why was published in the *1973
>> California Rare Fruit Growers Yearbook* (the year before I left).
>> Steve
>> Diver asked for for a copy and I e-mailed it to him about 12 years
>> ago.
>> (If Steve is on nafex I'd appreciate being sent a copy, since I don't
>> have it on hand at this time. And if not, Lawrence - I assume you
>> have
>> his current contact data, and I hope you can do me the favor of
>> sending
>> this on to him).
>>
>> Grafting is unnecessary and creates more problems than it solves.
>> Logically, those subscribing to organic, biological, alternative,
>> sustainable and ecological (as well as permaculture and biodynamic)
>> agriculture would recognize the importance of respecting and
>> maintaining
>> the integrity of the individual organism as a fundamental and
>> unalterable principle, yet no movement (that I'm aware of) has taken
>> up
>> the cause and I think I (along with other sympathetic individuals and
>> groups) need to do something about that. (It's on the agenda we've
>> established with CUCBA, our local Agricultural, Biological,
>> Environmental and Animal Sciences Faculty) <www.cucba.udg.mx> and as
>> time and funding permit, we will be moving ahead with it.
>>
>> That's all for now, but I can elaborate further if this post generates
>> any interest to that effect.
>>
>> Douglas Hinds,
>>
>> Director General
>> Centro para el Desarrollo Comunitario y Rural, A.C.
>>
>> Coordinator
>> Alianza para la Responsibilidad Ecologica y Social en el Desarrollo
>> (CUCBA, FEPRJ, CNC Jalisco, CeDeCoR A.C.)
>>
>> Chair
>> Organic Pineapple Working Group
>> International Society for Horticultural Science
>>
>> Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
>>
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