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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/18/2012 1:06 PM, Douglas Hinds wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 10:14 AM, Douglas Hinds wrote:

> It means that I noticed the difference in 1967, wrote the article in
> 1973 and after having taken the trouble to procure and consume fruit
> from seedling trees since then (with extremely rewarding results) and
> bothered to share my experience and explain the concept here as
> adequately as possible (for now) recently, I'll leave for others on
> nafex to investigate on their own, if the interest is there.

I emailed Steve about the article you sent him and he sent me this reply 
today:

Steve Diver writes:
"I remember an email exchange with Douglas about his ideas on "seedling" 
vs "grafted" fruit trees and found it quite interesting.  That must have 
been about 12-15 years ago as he noted.  But I don't recall receiving 
any articles or materials other than his email explanation.    So no I 
cannot retrieve anything.

Amazon carries a used version of CRFG Yearbook 1973 with Douglas M. 
Hinds as one of the editors for $19; including "The Need to Develop 
Seedling Strains in Fruit Trees".

Likewise, "The Need to Develop Seedling Strains in Fruit Trees" (1973, 
pp. 91-110) is listed in CRFG's bibliography.
http://www.crfg.org/fg/xref/xref-p.html

Given a PhD position with research funds and experiment station lands, 
or just independent wealth for a personal experimental farm, I can see a 
longtime field trial with multi-species fruit trees plantings that would 
examine the seedling vs grafted tree theory, along with mixed species 
plantings to create diversity and natural pest control, mulch-based 
systems, etc."