Re: Modernity: MELTED BUTTER & Hybridizer of CUP RACE
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- Subject: Re: Modernity: MELTED BUTTER & Hybridizer of CUP RACE
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@cache.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 14:55:24 -0700 (MST)
Dear Barb:
You wrote (2 Feb 97):
> Big red face here. The hybridizer of CUP RACE is Buttrick (from New
> England somewhere), not Babson (from California). Sorry, should have
> checked before I posted!
>
> Barb Johnson
>
Stedman Buttrick had a showplace house and garden in Concord, Massachusetts
that overlooked "the rude bridge whre the embattled farmers stood"
(quotation from poem NOT composed by Clarence Mahan). I believe it is now a
part of the National Historic Site (maybe someone from New England would
know if the garden is still in existence?).
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (Zone 4)
cwalters@cache.net
"This is the Place" - Utah Pioneer Sesquicentennial: 1847-1997
