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Wilson Popenoe (1892–1975) family papers
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Sharpe, Ralph H., 22 June 1967 –29 June 1974
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DO #324,
page 12
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- 1882–1975
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Antigua, Guatemala 28 Oct 1970
Prof. Ralph H. Sharpe
College of Agriculture
Gainesville, Fla.
Dear Ralph:
After a summer in Europe we get back a month ago and I am once more getting into the job here. I have been over to see Arturo Falla whose work is coming along beautifully. One of these numbered peaches of which you sent budwood came into fruit this year and he thinks very highly of it. He says it is a "meleocoton" but I am not sure just what he means. That Tennessee pear, number something like 10-27 or 27-10, - you will remember what it is; I always forget it - bore a fine crop this year and he is crazy about it. He is propagating all he can, from the trees her has, and is putting the majority on P.calleryana of which we now have a tremendous stock here. Some 5000 seedlings from last years planting, new ready for grafting, and mere than 40,000 from the seeds obtained last January. He has grafted quite a few Largas (what we are calling Clapp Favorite) and I saw the trees the other day; two feet high and growing beautifully.
In talking with him over the phone this morning he asked if I could help him get material of Early Amber to bud about 100 peach seedlings he now has available (he has more, as a matter of fact). How can we get hold of this material? It could be sent down by air mail. I doubt that you have it, but isn't there somebody in your region who could supply it? It seems to me this variety is patented, but there ought to be some way of getting a hundred buds, isn't there? If we get it from the owners of the patent they may ask an exhorbitant price.
Arturo has just ordered from the States 7000 Nemaguard seedlings, so as to save time. He did not get much of a crop from his Okinawa
