Nick has apparently decided to quit. His property, with trees, beasts, andIt would be interesting to see even a partial list of the more interesting varieties Nick has.
beautiful house is
advertised for sale. This raises a significant question, which harkens back
to a posting I
made a week or two ago: what is going to happen to his collection, which is
billed as "the
largest private collection in the Milky way". He has something in the order
of 4000 cultivars.
Compare this with the Geneva repository, who apparently have about 1500.
That is, there
are about 2500 cultivars in Nick's orchard that do not even exist in the
official government
germplasm repository. With luck somebody will buy Nick's place who will
maintain the
collection. But there is a real risk that some rich developer or something
could buy it and
bulldoze the whole thing, with the loss of all this material.
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