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 Factp 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.
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