I am a volunteer with the Home Orchard Society , who is lurking around the USDA’s pear germplasm respository in Corvallis, Oregon.
I have a particularly keen personal interest in the winter storage of fruit. I am also working off the hypothesis that one of the very biggest brakes on the uptake of pear diversity by [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Pear Storage Information Please?
Posted in Fruit Questions on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Centenarian Bramley Trees
Posted in Articles on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first large scale commercial plantings of Bramley’s Seedling apple trees took place in the 1890s on a farm at Loddington, outside Maidstone in Kent, a time when the foundations of our modern fruit industry were being laid. Thousands of apple trees were planted all over the country, old orchards rejuvenated and areas that had [...]
