Acknowledgements

ann Library is very grateful to Phil Forsline and Mary Jean Welser of Cornell University's Geneva campus (http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/) and to Ian Merwin of the university's Horticulture Department. Their willingness to help and their well-known expertise and enthusiasm for all aspects of apples contributed immensely to the success of this exhibit. We would also like to thank Sherry Vance, the curator of Cornell's Ethel Z. Bailey Horticultural Catalog Collection (http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/catalogs.htm) for being able to always find just the right catalog from over 134,000 items in the collection. Thanks also to Marty Schlabach, director of the Frank A. Lee Library at Cornell's Geneva campus, for providing a generous amount of the beautiful wax apples from the library's collection.

For those interested in delving into historic publications on the apple, both volumes of S. A. Beach's comprehensive The Apples of New York can be found on Cornell's Core Historical Literature of Agriculture website: http://chla.library.cornell.edu/

For additional reading material on apples see:

Browning, Frank   Apples New York: North Point Press, 1998

Hubbel, Sue   "Engineering the Apple" Natural History: October, 2001

Pollan, Michael   The Botany of Desire New York: Random House, 2001