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Kehr, August Ernest, 1914-. Papers of August Ernest Kehr [manuscript], 1930-1986.

Title: Papers of August Ernest Kehr [manuscript], 1930-1986.

The papers contain drawings, notes for speeches, newsletters and journals, photographs, and travel journal. Correspondence of Kehr with nurserymen and members of the American Rhododendron Society concerns the cultivation of azaleas and rhododendrons. Topics include seed and plant exchanges; registration of new hybrids; research; botanical expeditions; controversies; shipments and imports; diseases; tissue culture; and rhododendron genetics. The American Magnolia Society, Kenyan culture and agriculture prior to independence, and Kehr genealogy are also discussed. The collection also contains articles and speeches by Kehr and his associates; diagrams of the chromosome structure of azaleas; and newsletters and conference material from rhododendron and azalea societies. There are also notes and articles regarding the history of the American Rhododendron Society; nursery price lists; issues of the Rhododendron, 1961-1970; bylaws and some correspondence of the Rhododendron Species Foundation; photographs and slides; completed questionaires on rhododendron breeding; and a journal of a 1977 trip to China with the American Vegetable Farming System Delegation. Correspondents include Janet E. Binford, William B. Cook, Leonard F. Frisbie, Fred C. Galle, Harold Hopkins, Lennarth Jonsson, David Goheen Leach, Alfred S. Martin, Sandra MacDonald, Virginia Melnick, George T. Miller, Adolf Purtak, and George W. Ring.

ArchivalResource: 2,600 items.

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Ring, George, 1928-2001. Papers of George Ring, III [manuscript], 1925-1987.

Title: Papers of George Ring, III [manuscript], 1925-1987.

The collection centers on Ring's interest in the hybridization of rhododendrons and his activities as officer and committee member of the American Rhododendron Society. Topics include rhododendron growing advice; exchange of plant material; nursery orders; articles; talks; activities of the Potomac Valley Chapter; and special projects including research for chapters in "Hybrids and hybridizers," the Nearing Study Group active in locating and propagating plants introduced by Guy Nearing, a project to rate rhododendron performance in severe heat and cold, and a "good doer" survey of best growing varieties in each area of the country. The contributions of Joseph Benson Gable, a pioneer rhododendron hybridizer from Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, are a major topic. There are files from the Gable Study Group to list Gable azaleas and rhododendrons, efforts to collect correspondence and biographical material re Gable, his contributions and colleagues, particularly Guy Nearing, and Henry and Maletta Yates; notebooks of research material on him; and four of Gable's own notebooks on rhododendrons. The collection also contains nursery and supply catalogues. Correspondents include Sam Baldazea, Janet E. Binford, L.C. Case, Weldon Delp, Caroline Gable, Joseph Gable, Russ Haag, August Ernest Kehr, Robert P. King, Howard Kuhn, David G. Leach, Philip A. Livingston, Marion May, George Miller, Guy G. Nearing, Mary Oleri, Orlando S. Pride, Mike Rachinsky, Tom Ring, Jack Rosenthal, Henry T. Skinner, Cecil Smith, Hideo Suzuki, K. Wada, Franklin H. West, Conrad J. Wrzesinski, Maletta Yates, and Joseph Yates.

ArchivalResource: 2823 items.

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