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From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
> 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
>
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