A large selection of pomological titles - many old and out-of-print - is available via the mails for modest borrowing fees.

Use of the R. W. Daniels Memorial Library is one of the advantages of NAFEX membership. Judge R.W. Daniels, an amateur pomologist and book collector, donated his extensive collection of books to one of the founders of NAFEX, the late Fred Ashworth. Fred had the inspiration to use it as the foundation for a NAFEX library to memorialize his friend. He added volumes from his own collection and the R.W. Daniels Library came into being in the late Sixties. NAFEX co-founder Fred Janson of Ontario, Canada served as our first librarian. In 1981 Dorothy Nichols of Arcola, Missouri assumed that position and was able to computerize the growing resources. Our present librarian, John Hillbrand, took over in January 1988.

The NAFEX Library Book List is now available on the internet and you will receive a copy with your membership.

NAFEX and NNGA have established a cooperative library loan policy. The NNGA library page is available on-line at http://www.nutgrowing.org/library.htm

Other materials available form the NAFEX Library:

Back issues of POMONA

POMONA in REVIEW - volumes 1, 2, and 3 - Articles from the first two years of Pomona

POMONA INDEX- Number 1 from 1967-82 and Number 2 from 1983-89

New Items Winter 1998

Campbell, G. Davidson, R.J. Enns, and M. Reimer. Tree-Fruit Production for the Prairie Provinces (Canada). 1991, 45 pp. Donated by Doug Wallace.

McGrew, J. R. et al. Growing Wine Grapes. 1993, 96 pp. Published by the American Wine Society, this small book speaks simply and clearly.

Proulx, Annie and Lew Nichols. Cider: Making, Using, and Enjoying Sweet and Hard Cider, 2nd ed. 1997, 219 pp. A reformatted version of a deservedly popular book.

Soper, John. Studying the Agricultural Course. 1976, 88 pp. Thoughts and speculations on Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture. Donated by Volker Imschweiler.

Steiner, Rudolf. Agriculture (1924 lectures). Translated by Catherine E. Creeger and Malcolm Gardner. 1993, 314 pp. A new translation of the foundational text of biodynamics, including a bibliography, photos of the original manuscript, and color plates of the original blackboard drawings. Donated by Volker Imschweiler.

New loan files on: Fuji Apple (50 pp.), Corylus (Hazelnuts and Filberts, 40 pp.), Pine Nuts (40 pp.), Genetic Dwarf Fruit Trees (20 pp.), Ginkgo Nuts (20 pp.), Opuntia (Prickly Pear, 25 pp.).