I gather from Jerry Lehman’s mail to Group that Mr. Gene Wild has a
collection of 800 apple varieties. I guess that it it must be the LARGEST
collection owned by an individual.
Am, I right? Or any of you know about a larger collection.
It requires great passion to build such a large collection of varieties as it
is not a good commercial strategy. In India, kings and big landlords used to
build large collection of mango varieties but here I have not heard a
collection bigger than of 350 mango varieties. However, 400 years ago there
once existed a mango orchard which had one lakh (100,000) mango trees and it
was called Lakh Bagh (bagh=orchard). But it was got planted by the great
Moghul Emperor Akbar.
I keep collecting such bits of information for my “Fruit Facts” which I
publish weekly in Fruitipedia and one Indian newspaper. I think Gene’s
collection can feature in that if it the largest collection by an individual.
Jerry:
Can you give me contact details of Gene Wild?
Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
186/3 Jail Road
Mandi HP 175001, India
01905-222810; 094181-81323
www.fruitipedia.com
[nafex] Collection of apple varieties,
Dr. Chiranjit Parmar, 01/30/2012