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It has long interested me how R. Lobitz came up with the pattern of Spring Valley Purple and Cyrus Grays. He had neither Mrociumere or Dapple Grey in his collection. I have what I believe is Robert's entire list of his collection outside of his named beans. I also wonder how he came up with that whole line of beans that looked like or similar too Blooming Prairie with that off white circle around the eye before the purplish coloration of the bean begins. Sometime after I get through sorting beans I will have to put up this list of R. Lobitz's collection. He collected beans from the USDA too. I see on his foreign bean list that there was a number of beans from Africa. They came from the USDA and I don't think any of them are listed by name but USDA accession numbers. The African beans is probably where the Spring Valley Purple and Cyrus Grays pattern came from.@Bluejay77 any background information you might have on any of the below things would interest me greatly.
I purchased Dapple Grey in May of 2011 from a seller on Ebay that goes by the name of Azure Dandelion.
Cyrus Grays I got from a woman in Jefferson, Maine in 2018 who inherited a former SSE member Sam Birch's seed collection who had passed away probably sometime in 2014. Sam's seed was from 2013 growing season. I believe Sam acquired Cyrus Grays from Robert while he was still living.
Pale Grey Lavender I acquired in September 2018
I don't believe Robert ever grew any pole beans. He did have some semi runners. That was as far as he got into climbing beans. His collection highly revolved around bush beans.
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