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--=====================_2289515==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The following lecture will be of interest to some. Patricia L. Chalmers Halifax Nova Scotian Institute of Science Museum of Natural History auditorium, 1747 Summer St., Halifax. "100 Years of Research in the Orchard" January 9, 2012 7:30 p.m. Dr. Charlie Embree, Tree Fruit Physiologist, Agriculture and Agri-Food's Atlantic Food and Horticultural Research Centre, Kentville, N. S. From the time the Acadians planted the first seedling apple trees in the 1600s until the end of the 1800s, progress in the development of the apple industry was slow. Production began to increase in the late 1800s, as more and more farmers planted apple trees and tested new varieties. This was led by Charles Prescott in the 1840s, who introduced the Gravenstein apple, among other cultivars. By the late 1800s, successful sales of apples in the United Kingdom also stimulated planting. This led to a peak of export production in 1933. The Nova Scotia Marketing Board at the time had 220 cultivars registered. Since then the Nova Scotia apple industry has experienced considerable challenges and production has increased and decreased during the last three decades to the current average of about three million bushels a year. From 1911 to 2011, the federal research facility, the Atlantic Food and Horticultural Research Centre in Kentville has diligently studied and solved problems for the local industry as well as for leading apple-producing areas around the world. This presentation will summarize earlier history and briefly outline some of the key research accomplishments that led to this progress. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Science/NSIS/ --=====================_2289515==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <body> The following lecture will be of interest to some.<br><br> Patricia L. Chalmers<br> Halifax<br><br> <font size=3D4>Nova Scotian Institute of Science<br> Museum of Natural History auditorium, <br> 1747 Summer St., Halifax.<br><br> "100 Years of Research in the Orchard"<br> January 9, 2012 7:30 p.m.<br> Dr. Charlie Embree, Tree Fruit Physiologist, Agriculture and Agri-Food=92s Atlantic Food and Horticultural Research Centre, Kentville, N. S.<br><br> From the time the Acadians planted the first seedling apple trees in the 1600s until the end of the 1800s, progress in the development of the apple industry was slow. Production began to increase in the late 1800s, as more and more farmers planted apple trees and tested new varieties. This was led by Charles Prescott in the 1840s, who introduced the Gravenstein apple, among other cultivars. By the late 1800s, successful sales of apples in the United Kingdom also stimulated planting. This led to a peak of export production in 1933. The Nova Scotia Marketing Board at the time had 220 cultivars registered. Since then the Nova Scotia apple industry has experienced considerable challenges and production has increased and decreased during the last three decades to the current average of about three million bushels a year. From 1911 to 2011, the federal research facility, the Atlantic Food and Horticultural Research Centre in Kentville has diligently studied and solved problems for the local industry as well as for leading apple-producing areas around the world. This presentation will summarize earlier history and briefly outline some of the key research accomplishments that led to this progress.<br><br> <a href=3D"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Science/NSIS/" eudora=3D"autourl"> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Science/NSIS/</a></font></body> </html> --=====================_2289515==.ALT--
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