Good Fruit Grower

June 2011 Vol 62 number 11

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GOOD JOB To read more, go to the People page at www.goodfruit.com. Call for: Wine auction honorees chosen sultant Jerry Bookwalter, Richland, Washington, will serve as the Honorary Grower dur- ing the Auction of Washington Wines, a four-day event in August that raises funds for Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Washington Wine Education Foundation. Chris Camarda, owner of Andrew Will Winery, Seattle, Washington, was named the Auction’s Honorary Vintner. Bookwalter moved to Washington State from California in 1976 to manage the state’s W largest vinifera planting at the time for Sagemoor Farms. He started his own viticultural management and grape brokering company six years later and in 1983, established Bookwalter Winery, now headed by his son John. Today, he is partner in Thorsen, Book- walter, and Associates, consulting and managing several vineyards. Camarda made his first wine in 1987. He started Andrew Will Winery in 1989 in 900 square feet of rented industrial space in Seattle, moving the winery to Vashon Island in 1994. Today, Camarda works with three vineyards—his own estate vineyard in Zillah, Champoux Vineyards near Alderdale, and Ciel du Cheval at Red Mountain. s Norman Childers, 1910–2011 D r. Norman Childers, a legendary figure in the horti- culture industry, died April 24 in Gainesville, Florida. He turned 100 years old last November. He was active as a teacher and writer well into his 90s. “Everybody has a story about Doc Childers,” said Jerry Frecon, an Extension stone fruit specialist at Rutgers University who was a graduate student of Childers in 1968. Directed by university policy to retire when he turned 70, Childers left Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1981, where he had been since 1947 and headed the horticul- ture department for 20 years. He moved to Gainesville to begin a 26-year career teaching horticulture at the University of Florida. As a courtesy professor there, he received no pay. “He was a great horticulturist, a great teacher, a prolific writer, and a great com- piler of information,” Frecon said. “He was a grower-oriented researcher, and he was gifted. He could go to a conference and then write a 15-page syllabus of the whole proceedings. Much of what he wrote he published himself, and paid for it out of his own pocket. He started his own company, Horticultural Publications, to sell his books.” His last book, Blueberry for Gardeners and Promoters, was published when he was 96 years old. Childers wrote or edited 28 books. Modern Fruit Sciencehas been updated more than a dozen times and translated into several languages. Other books he edited include The Peach, Fruit Nutrition, The Pear, and The Strawberry. During his career, he mentored more than 70 doctoral and master’s degree students. Among many awards, in 2008 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society for Horticultural Science, an award seldom bestowed and con- sidered the highest in the field. He once said he went to his first ASHS meeting in 1937 and only missed three meetings in 65 years thereafter. According to Rutgers Professor Jim White, Childers established the Childers Horticultural Scholarship at the university. “Each year, Dr. Childers contributed additional funds to this scholarship,” he said. The Childers Horticultural Scholar- ship is awarded each year and used to support students in applied and basic areas of plant biology, as per his wishes. Gifts to the Rutgers University Foundation in Norm Childers’s memory may specify this scholarship.” Donations may also be made to the American Society of Horticultural Science or to the University of Florida Horticultural Sciences Scholarship Fund. Originally from Idaho, Childers went to the University of Missouri, where he obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees before studying for a doctorate in pomology at Cornell University, New York. www.goodfruit.com TOP QUALITY VIRUS TESTED VERY COMPETITIVE PRICING CONTRACTS FOR 2012, 2013 Custom Contracted Apple, Pear, Cherry & Peach Trees FIELD GROWN AND GREEN GROW GRAPE VINES Call for varieties, pricing, and orders. A TIMELY REMINDER: •Time to order trees for delivery in 2013. •Order NOW for 2012 sleepy eyes. •Time to decide rootstock needs for 2012 bench grafts. Paul Tvergyak: 509-669-0689 • ptvergyak@genext.net We ship nationwide, so please call for price and availability! 509/662-6931 www.cameronnursery.com 1261 Ringold Rd., PO Box 300 • Eltopia, WA 99330 GOOD FRUIT GROWER JUNE 2011 5 ine grape grower and viticulture con- Jerry Bookwalter Chris Camarda • TREES • ROOTSTOCK • INTERSTEMS • BENCH GRAFTS • SLEEPING EYES • ROYALTIES HIGHEST QUALITY FRUIT TREES AND GRAPE VINES!

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