To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tenn pear
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:11:17 -0600
Does anyone have the faintest idea what this pear was called or numbered
when it was either released, or not released? Or even what year it came
out? I know of two trees, and they are very good. But it is rather
frustrating to not know more about them. If Sherwood Akin was the source,
he was buddies with a USDA breeder in SC, and I guess the variety could have
slipped out that way. Other things slipped out in similar ways, things that
we taxpayers paid to have produced, but the plant breeders didn't see fit to
release. I've read that the Murcott, a fantastic citrus cross, would never
have been released by the USDA these days, because they tree has got
problems. Because in the old days they had to work more with comercial
growers, the stock was already in the hands of the public. Donna
Re: [NAFEX] Tenn pear,
Donna &/or Kieran, 12/05/2007