Re: All About Eve
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: All About Eve
- From: "* D* <s*@pcug.org.au>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:29:03 +1100
Gents,
Is the Big Max in this lineage?
Stewart ACT Aust
sdeans@pcug.org.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cohill <mcohill@neo.lrun.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Saturday, 10 January 1998 13:25
Subject: All About Eve
>
>Way back in the genetic ancestry of the Atlantic Giant Pumpkin (C. maxima)
>you will find three different pumpkin varieties which Mr. Howard Dill used
>in the 1970's to breed his now famous, and our favorite, pumpkin; they are
>Goderich Giant, Genuine Mammoth and Mammoth Tours. It seems that the
>Goderich and the Tours are now extinct varieties. (If anyone knows
>different I'd love to have seed.) However, there is a good chance that
>Genuine Mammoth is still kicking around, still grown by a few seed savers
>and offered by at least one or two seed companies as Mammoth or Large
>Mammoth.
> In an old garden seed book, published 1885 there is a picture of Mammoth,
>which is attached. I'm planning on growing it this coming season. The pic
>is 35K . If any are angry about that size, simply highlight this message
>and push your delete button before clicking on the paper clip, icon, etc.
> I got a scanner for Xmas and I hope this works with the e-mail list.
>Michael in Akron
>mcohill@neo.lrun.com
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