Volume 46 Number 3 Article 11
Year 1992 Month 7
Title: The Apples of Maine
Author: APS
Abstract:
An unpublished Master's thesis that
has languished in the archives of the
University of Maine at Orono for
eighty years contains a wealth of in
formation on old apple varieties.
The
work was researched by Frederick
Charles Bradford in 1911 and is en
titled "Apple Varieties In Maine". This
thesis describes, often in great detail,
the more than 650 apple cultivars that
grew in Maine prior to 1911, over 200
of which were of Maine provenance;
there are over 1200 listed cultivar
names, including synonyms as historically
used in Maine.
The greatest value
of this work, however, lies in the extra
ordinary source references delineated
under each variety name.
Baldwin,
for example, sports four pages of descriptive text and 160 references which
may be utilized for further reading!
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