I gather from Jerry Lehmans 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 Factp which I publish weekly in Fruitipedia and one Indian newspaper. I think Genes collection can feature in that if it the largest collection by an individual.
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