Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, grant files, Horticultural Science Department planning documents (Geneva), McCarthy Farm Nursery documents, meetings and activities files, publications files, and New York plum pox virus files.
Dates
- 1962-2001.
Creator
- Andersen, Robert Louis, 1937- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor Emeritus of Horticulture, Department of Horticultural Sciences at Geneva, NY. Areas of expertise include plant breeding, sweet cherry genetics, plum breeding, apricot breeding, variety testing, rootstock testing, and adult education relating to deciduous tree fruit production. From 1985 to 1990 he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Horticultural Sciences at NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York. He retired... July 14, 2004.
See moreExtent
32.4 cubic feet. (32.4 cubic feet.)
Physical Description
Correspondence, Publications, Research Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Guy Smith
- Date completed:
- October 2007
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, October 2007
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, May 2016
- Agriculture -- Study and teaching.
- Apricot -- Rootstocks -- Testing.
- Apricot -- Varieties -- Testing.
- Cornell Research Foundation
- Horticulture -- Study and teaching.
- New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
- Pears -- Cultivars and culture.
- Plum -- Rootstocks -- Testing.
- Plum -- Varieties -- Testing.
- Sweet cherry -- Rootstocks -- Testing.
- Sweet cherry -- Varieties -- Testing.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Guy Smith
- Date
- October 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu