Re: Tukey at Cornell

**L* R* <l*@hvc.rr.com>**

The Seattle Harold Tukey, just to note, was, I believe, the son of Harold B. Tukey, who wrote among the best fruit books (to us fruit nuts, at least) of all time, Dwarfed Fruit Trees. I keep that one in my shelf of horticultural classics. The elder Tukey was in Michigan.

Lee Reich, PhD
http://www.leereich.com/
http://leereich.com/blog.html.

Books by Lee Reich:
A Northeast Gardener's Year
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
Landscaping with Fruit

On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Marty Wingate wrote:

> That's Harold Tukey you are remembering. Dr. Tukey moved out to  
> Seattle and became the first director of the Center for Urban  
> Horticulture. I took classes from him during grad school in the 90s.  
> You can read more about him by going to the University of Washington  
> Botanic Gardens site (uwbotanicgardens.org) and searching his name.
> 
> Marty Wingate
> 
> Author:
> The Bellevue Botanical Garden: Celebrating the First 15 Years (2007)
> The Big Book of Northwest Perennials
> (Sasquatch Books, 2005)
> Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens
> (Sasquatch Books, 2003)
> 
> 
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