From: "Michael D. Bathrick" <bathrick@berkshire.net>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Fruit Exploring
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:58:54 -0500
Thanks, Lon, I appreciate your feedback!
Mike
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lon
Rombough Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:52 PM To:
North American Fruit Explorers Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit
Exploring
The problem may be that it's hard to identify an old raspberry
variety unless it has something really unusual about it. Also, old patches don't
usually last that many years. Often they will get virus and are removed. You'd
almost have to find them around abandoned farms, and even then it would be hard
to identify them. The NCGR at Corvallis got just about all their selections from
odd nurseries and such that have maintained them. I was there when they found
Antwerp in one single nursery in England - the last known source of the variety.
But for that one place, it would have been lost. You might try the Amish, and
similar groups that tend to protect and perpetuate varieties they have
traditionally grown. -Lon Rombough Grapes, writing, consulting, my book,
The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden
Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003. On Dec 15, 2004,
at 6:11 PM, Michael D. Bathrick wrote:
I plan on spending some time this
summer trying to find some "lost" raspberries - checking out former farms,
etc. for classics like Brinckle's Orange, Red Antwerp, Hudson River Antwerp,
etc. Some of these may have been too tender to make it through the winters
up here without care (the Berkshires of western MA - Zone 5), but I will
be checking in the Hudson Valley of NY and PA as well.
I was wondering if
anyone who has done any similar project can give me some suggestions or
recommendations on how to do this. Where to look, books to read, maybe you
already know where to find some of these...
Corvallis is a good source
for some, but they don't have that many truly old ones - unless they have
them but have just not listed them.
Mike
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