biography
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Campbell, George (Washington)
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| lived:
| (1817–98)
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| biography:
| Horticulturalist and inventor, born in Cherry Valley, New York, USA. He moved to Ohio as a child and trained for newspaper work, but from the mid-1850s he turned his full energies to fruit-growing. His wide-ranging experiments with seedlings and crosses fostered the development of American grape-culture. He considered his Campbell Early, which bore its first fruit in 1892, to come the closest to his professed ambition to create the perfect grape. |
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