Marionberry
The Grammer Genious
generally not held in high regard on the east coast, the people out there on
the west coast have named a fruit after him, apparently as a tribute -- the
marionberry. It is delicious in jams and pies.
tinwhistler
Excerpt from Wiki's entry for "blackberry:"
Marion' (marketed as "marionberry") is an important cultivar and is
from a cross between 'Chehalem' and 'Olallie' (commonly called
"olallieberry") berries. It is claimed to "capture the best attributes
of both berries and yields an aromatic bouquet and an intense
blackberry flavor".[5]. Olallie in turn is a cross between loganberry
and youngberry. 'Marion', 'Chehalem' and 'Olallie' are just three of
the many trailing blackberry cultivars developed by the United States
Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS)
blackberry breeding program at Oregon State University in Corvallis,
Oregon. [end excerpt]
I get a lot of hits on "marion grass" when Googling, but didn't run
down where the "marion" part of that comes from. That's much older
than the DC mayor.
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tinwhistler
[snip]
> I get a lot of hits on "marion grass" when Googling, but didn't run
> down where the "marion" part of that comes from. That's much older
> than the DC mayor.
I'm thinking it's more often spelled "*merion* grass" -- neither
spelling is in OED2 or the One-Look dics.
Snidely
tinwhistler wrote:
[...]
> 'Marion', 'Chehalem' and 'Olallie' are just three of
> the many trailing blackberry cultivars developed by the United States
> Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS)
> blackberry breeding program at Oregon State University in Corvallis,
> Oregon. [end excerpt]
>
> I get a lot of hits on "marion grass" when Googling, but didn't run
> down where the "marion" part of that comes from. That's much older
> than the DC mayor.
Look under geographic names. Wikipedia notes for the 3rd version that
""Olallie" means berry in the Chinook Jargon.".
Jargon -- Chinook is usually referred to as a language. :-(
Chehalem is a geographic name. I use to have access to a book on the
origins of the placenames of Oregon, but that was long ago and far
away, and a quick Google doesn't turn up what the Indians of the
Willamette Valley thought it meant.
/dps
Snidely
I think this is the first time this month that I've seen this "humor".
/dps
Snidely
[...]
> Chehalem is a geographic name. I use to have access to a book on the
> origins of the placenames of Oregon, but that was long ago and far
> away, and a quick Google doesn't turn up what the Indians of the
> Willamette Valley thought it meant.
Found one explanation, after sifting a bit: Google had a cached page
for Travel Oregon that included the explanation that, "Chehalem (Chuh-
hay-lum) is an American Indian word meaning "gentle land" or "valley
of flowers," phrases that capture a reverence for the land."
But the target page[1] no longer displays that text.
[1] <http://www.traveloregon.com/Bounty/Willamette-Valley/Wineries/
Chehalem.aspx>
/dps
jo...@phred.org
Coming from the other Washington, I was amazed even D.C. could elect a
mayor named for a pie filling.
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