Volume 45 Number 1 Article 12
Year 1991 Month 1
Title: "Enie, Menie, Miney, Moe"
Author: J.D. Postman
Abstract:
In 1947, the Agriculture Canada research
station in Ottawa had several
pear selections that looked promising.
The decision about which clone to name
was apparently quite daunting, and so
a children's game was employed to
decide between the four finalists.
In
the end, researchers either must not
have remembered, or (as is often the
case with the youngsters in my family)
could not agree on the last verse of the poem,
and so all four clones were
named.
The four cultivars are enumerated
in the title of this short essay.
'Menie' was derived from the cross
'Kurskaya' x 'Flemish Beauty; and the
other three have the pedigree 'Zuckerbirne'
x 'Clapp Favorite: These cultivars
were released for home garden
use ill eastern Ontario and Quebec and
in general were cold hardy and reasonably
resistant to fireblight. 'Menie'
and 'Moe' are represented in the USDA
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
pear collection.
The repository is
looking for scions of 'Enie' and 'Miney'
to complete this quartet.
Reference
Brooks, R. M. and H.P. Olmo, 1972. Register of
New Fruit and Nut Varieties.
University of
California Press, Berkeley.
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