Guide to the George W. Remaily Papers,
1950-2000.

Collection Number: 6665

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
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Compiled by:
Evan Fay Earle
Date completed:
June 2007
EAD encoding:
Evan Fay Earle, June 2007
Date modified:
RMC Staff, August 2011

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
George W. Remaily papers, 1970-2000.
Collection Number:
6665
Creator:
George W.(George Washington), Remaily 1912-2004.
Quantity:
7 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Publications, Research Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, extensive grape breeding notes and notebooks, drawings of grape plants, drawings and sketches for wine labels for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva Cellars. Includes rootstock and grape information from the U.S., Georgia (in the former U.S.S.R.), France, and Germany. Information about his Hammondsport vineyard.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George W. Remaily was a viticulturist, notably of winter hardy table grapes. He studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1933-35 and was known as a landscape artist before he was recognized as a viticulturist. In the 1960s he moved with his wife to Hammondsport N.Y. from Bucks County, Pa., in order to continue grape breeding experiments and to collaborate with staff at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. Over the course of his life and well into his 80s, he collected over 2000 cultivars on both his Pennsylvania and New York properties to use for his many crosses. The focus of his work was crossing Vinifera seedless table grapes varieties with native seedless varieties in order to create winter hardy seedless table grapes. This accomplishment was a first in viticulture. His vineyard had a large collection of American, Asian and European hybrids, comprising a collection of root stock used throughout the world. For many years, he was associated with the Experiment Station at Geneva, where a vast collection of his originations were evaluated, resulting in such named varieties as Einsett Seedless, Marquis (currently in Stark catalog), and Remaily Seedless. During his tenure with the station, as the leading authority on indigenous species, he was invited to write a paper for the United Nations defining grape germ plasm.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, extensive grape breeding notes and notebooks, drawings of grape plants, drawings and sketches for wine labels for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva Cellars. Includes rootstock and grape information from the U.S., Georgia (in the former U.S.S.R.), France, and Germany. Information about his Hammondsport vineyard. Many slides of grapes and vineyard as well.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Remaily, George W.1912-2004.
Einset, John, 1915-
McGrew, John R.(John Roberts), 1923-
Olmo, H. P.(Harold Paul), 1909-2006.
Wellington, R.(Richard), b. 1884.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

Subjects:
Table grapes.
Viticulture--Europe.
Fruit.
Germplasm resources.
Grape industry--New York (State).
Grapes.
Plant breeding.
Plant genetics.
Plants
Viticulture--New York (State).
Wine and wine making.

Places:
Hammondsport (N.Y.).


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
George W. Remaily papers, #6665. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Folder titles are often derived from original folder titles, though in some cases they are not descriptive of all the material in the folder. Original folder order has, for the most part, been maintained. Order seems somewhat random. In some cases no folder title or theme could be established these items are labeled as miscellaneous. Remaily reused many pieces of paper for notes so sometimes the fronts and backs of notes are not related.
Books in the collection have been removed and the titles can be found within the Library system. Books removed include:

RELATED MATERIALS

Forms part of the Eastern Wine and Grape Archive. (EWGA)
See collection #6695 for a large photo of the Remaily Seedless grape.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Bibliography
Box 1 Folder 1
Weather maps etc.
Box 1 Folder 2
Addresses
Box 1 Folder 3
Association Nationale Technique Pour L'amerlioration del la Viticulture. Vassal L'espiguette. Claude Valat.
Box 1 Folder 4
Articles
Box 1 Folder 5
1998
Box 1 Folder 6
Postentry quarantine permits
Box 1 Folder 7
Articles
Box 1 Folder 8
Origins of Horticulture and Agriculture
Box 1 Folder 9
S. S. Negi and H. P. Olmo
Box 1 Folder 10
Articles
Box 1 Folder 11
Propagation: Media, Systems, etc.
Box 1 Folder 12
Dwarfs - grafting of root stock
Box 1 Folder 13
Propagation - Grafting
Box 1 Folder 14
Grafting
Box 1 Folder 15
Viticulture of Eastern North America - Einset
Box 1 Folder 16
Botanical drawings
Box 1 Folder 17
Wine labels
Box 1 Folder 18
Hormone - Japanese cucumber
Box 1 Folder 19
Physiology
Box 1 Folder 20
Anthocyans of Grape Juice and Wine
Box 1 Folder 21
Articles
Box 1 Folder 22
Dwarfing
Box 1 Folder 23
Belstville
Box 1 Folder 24
Fertilizers
Box 1 Folder 25
Records R
Box 1 Folder 26
Records
Box 1 Folder 27
Vineland
Box 1 Folder 28
Forms
Box 1 Folder 29
Pathology
Box 1 Folder 30
Pomona
Box 1 Folder 31
Articles
Box 1 Folder 32
Grape - Cooperative Extension
Box 1 Folder 33
Ampelography
Box 1 Folder 34
Books
Box 1 Folder 35
Ampelography
Box 1 Folder 36
Grape culture
Box 1 Folder 37
Grafting
Box 1 Folder 38
Genetic engineering
Box 1 Folder 39
V. amurensis
Box 1 Folder 40
Rootstocks
Box 1 Folder 41
Geilweilerhof
Box 1 Folder 42
Alleweldt
Box 1 Folder 43
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 44
California repository
Box 1 Folder 45
California vinifera
Box 1 Folder 46
Finger Lakes grape crate labels
Box 1 Folder 47
Articles
Box 1 Folder 48
Articles
Box 1 Folder 49
Hybridization
Box 1 Folder 50
Breeding
Box 1 Folder 51
Breeding
Box 1 Folder 52
Particulate analysis of species of vitis
Box 1 Folder 53
Misc. notes
Box 1 Folder 54
Misc. notes and articles
Box 1 Folder 55
Misc. articles
Box 1 Folder 56
Misc. grape notes
Box 1 Folder 57
Scientific publications, lectures, Olmo, Barrett
Box 1 Folder 58
Items removed from books and list of books removed from collection.
Box 1 Folder 59
Design art notes
Box 1 Folder 60
Letters
Box 2 Folder 1
Ronald M. Peterson correspondence
Box 2 Folder 2
Publications
Box 2 Folder 3
German varieties and breeding
Box 2 Folder 4
"Trace Elements in the Soil" by Firman E. Bear
Box 2 Folder 5
Angel A Gargiulo article
Box 2 Folder 6
New York State Fruit Testing Association
Box 2 Folder 7
Wine and grape articles and clippings
Box 2 Folder 8
Soil, compost
Box 2 Folder 9
Misc. articles and clippings
Box 2 Folder 10
Grape Cultivar Marquis U.S. Patent 11012
Box 2 Folder 11
Varieties
Box 2 Folder 12
Repository
Box 2 Folder 13
Chinese orchards
Box 2 Folder 14
Jack Schulze and Associates
Box 2 Folder 15
Letters
Box 2 Folder 16
Letters
Box 2 Folder 17
1974-1975
Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 18
Root
Box 2 Folder 19
Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 20
Natural selection
Box 2 Folder 21
Misc. notes
Box 2 Folder 22
Articles
Box 2 Folder 23
Notes
Box 2 Folder 24
Potting
Box 2 Folder 25
Grape
Box 2 Folder 26
Vinifera Islamic Afghanistan
Box 2 Folder 27
Written breeding notes
Box 2 Folder 28
1989
Remaily experimental vineyard
Box 2 Folder 29
Biography of George M. Darrow
Box 2 Folder 30
Hormone regulation
Box 2 Folder 31
1998
Records
Box 2 Folder 32
Correspondence 1968
Box 2 Folder 33
Natural selection, systematics, taxonomy
Box 2 Folder 34
Species
Box 2 Folder 35
B-1988
Box 2 Folder 36
Articles
Box 2 Folder 37
Articles
Box 2 Folder 38
Articles
Box 2 Folder 39
1975
Importations
Box 2 Folder 40
B10 Chemical
Box 2 Folder 41
Articles
Box 2 Folder 42
John R. McGrew correspondence
Box 2 Folder 43
French articles
Box 2 Folder 44
French hybrids
Box 2 Folder 45
French hybrids
Box 2 Folder 46
Hybrid history
Box 2 Folder 47
Hybrid nomenclature
Box 2 Folder 48
B-1988
Box 2 Folder 49
Grape information, some from H. C. Barrett
Box 2 Folder 50
Species
Box 2 Folder 51
Barrett collection
Box 2 Folder 52
Barrett collection
Box 2 Folder 53
"Descriptions for Grape"
Box 2 Folder 54
Propagation
Box 2 Folder 55
Graftage
Box 2 Folder 56
Computerized grape seedling records, germplasm collections
Box 2 Folder 57
Hormone experiment
Box 2 Folder 58
B 1988
Box 2 Folder 59
Barrett
Box 2 Folder 60
Notebook
Box 2 Folder 61
Albert Koyama correspondence
Box 2 Folder 62
National Germplasm Repository
Box 2 Folder 63
Germplasm Repository, misc. notes, letters
Box 2 Folder 64
Potential grape varieties
Box 2 Folder 65
Parentages
Box 2 Folder 66
Remaily's wine tasting diary notebook. His notes about wines he tasted. Back has garden and temperature notes.
Box 3 Folder 1
Designs for Geneva Experiment Station wine labels
Box 3 Folder 2
Correspondence and labels from Geneva Cellars
Box 3 Folder 3
Misc. artwork, drawings, wine labels
Box 3 Folder 4
Slide of George Remaily in front of his Hammondsport home
Box 3 Folder 5
Miscellaneous recipes and cooking clippings, some by Bruce I. Reisch
Box 3 Folder 6
Cooking clippings
Box 3 Folder 7
Regulation of Sex Expression and Seed Development in Grapes with 2-Chloroethylphosphonic Acid by Remaily and Walter J. Kender
Box 3 Folder 8
Robert T Dunstan correspondence
Box 3 Folder 9
Joseph W. Adams correspondence, University of Pennsylvania
Box 3 Folder 10
1960s-1980s
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 11
1989-2000
Correspondence, includes Nelson Shaulis, James N. Moore, Albert Koyama. Includes some notes, discussion of grapes, Remaily's health. Note from Remaily to NYSAES regarding John P. Watson's death.
Box 3 Folder 12
Grape articles and clippings
Box 3 Folder 13
Wine and grape notes
Box 3 Folder 14
Current notes in progress
Box 3 Folder 15
Misc. articles
Box 3 Folder 16
FAO IBPGR notes
Box 3 Folder 17
Parthenocarpy and seedlessness
Box 3 Folder 18
Texture, table types
Box 3 Folder 19
New York germplasm repository
Box 3 Folder 20
Einset grape royalties
Box 3 Folder 21
Grape varieties and species
Box 3 Folder 22
Pinot Noir
Box 3 Folder 23
Misc. notes
Box 3 Folder 24
Harold P. Olmo correspondence
Box 3 Folder 25
"Classification of Fruiting Characteristics and Properties" by George Renaily
Box 3 Folder 26
Genetics
Box 3 Folder 27
Taxonomy, cloning
Box 3 Folder 28
Varieties
Box 3 Folder 29
Juice
Box 3 Folder 30
Quotes, religion
Box 3 Folder 31
Pathology, entomology, and spraying
Box 3 Folder 32
Einset seedless grapes
Box 3 Folder 33
Propogation
Box 3 Folder 34
Expansion useful characters
Box 3 Folder 35
Breeding vitis philos.
Box 3 Folder 36
Species notes
Box 3 Folder 37
Cornell Research Foundation
Box 3 Folder 38
Hybrid grape pigment
Box 3 Folder 39
Seed
Box 3 Folder 40
Seeds, seed morphology
Box 3 Folder 41
Wine
Box 3 Folder 42
Fruit breeding, vegetable
Box 3 Folder 43
Department of Agriculture, vitis description, exploration
Box 3 Folder 44
Misc. notes, germplasm, genetics, species
Box 3 Folder 45
Misc. notes
Box 3 Folder 46
Misc. notes, legal size
Box 3 Folder 47
Manuscripts
Box 4 Folder 1
1980
"Descriptions of Vitis Clones Imported from Bordeaux, France and Geilweilerhop, Federal Republic of Germany" by Geroge Remaily
Box 4 Folder 2
Breeding 1963
Box 4 Folder 3
Misc. articles
Box 4 Folder 4
Culture
Box 4 Folder 5
1976
"Wine Varieties Selected for Further Testing in New York" R. M. Pool, K. H. Kimball, J. P. Watson
Box 4 Folder 6
Repository, Geneva material
Box 4 Folder 7
Fingerlakes Grape Growers Convention programs
Box 4 Folder 8
Remaily collection
Box 4 Folder 9
Records, Bucks County
Box 4 Folder 10
Taylor, S. C. Mendell
Box 4 Folder 11
Misc. 1980s
Box 4 Folder 12
Genetics
Box 4 Folder 13
Taxonomy, seeds, etc., analysis
Box 4 Folder 14
Taxonomy
Box 4 Folder 15
Vitis of Lake Cayuga
Box 4 Folder 16
1980
Records
Box 4 Folder 17
1970s
Letters, includes D. C. Paschke
Box 4 Folder 18
Vinifera
Box 4 Folder 19
Chardonnay varieties
Box 4 Folder 20
Misc. grape growth, nutrition, breeding, patent, articles
Box 4 Folder 21
University of California Davis
Box 4 Folder 22
Wine evaluation
Box 4 Folder 23
Misc. articles.
Box 4 Folder 24
Monographies des Hybrides Producteurs et Porte-Greffes by A. Galibert
Box 4 Folder 25
"Les Vignes Sauvages Comme Sources de Genes Pour L'amerlioration" Max rives
Box 4 Folder 26
Publications on grapes
Box 4 Folder 27
Misc. notes
Box 4 Folder 28
Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 29
Vineyard grape evaluations
Box 4 Folder 30
1975-1977
Vineyard grape evaluations
Box 4 Folder 31
Grape scientific articles
Box 4 Folder 32
Virus notes and articles
Box 4 Folder 33
Geneva Experiment Station
Box 4 Folder 34
Vitis rotundifolia
Box 4 Folder 35
German grape publications
Box 4 Folder 36
H. C. Barrett and others grape breeding articles
Box 4 Folder 37
Seedless grape notes
Box 4 Folder 38
Grape articles, reprints
Box 4 Folder 39
Crafts
Box 4 Folder 40
Biography, Geneva projects
Box 4 Folder 41
Phelps east of the vinifera
Box 4 Folder 42
Phelps west of the vinifera
Box 4 Folder 43
Remaily Phelps Kasper
Box 4 Folder 44
Phelps Vin 25
Box 4 Folder 45
Crittenden Farm and index by vineyard
Box 4 Folder 46
Seeding and germination
Box 5 Folder 1
Grape literature
Box 5 Folder 2
Flowers
Box 5 Folder 3
Methodolgy ethos, grape breeding
Box 5 Folder 4
1972-1974
Records
Box 5 Folder 5
Grape breeding scientific reports
Box 5 Folder 6
Grape breeding Horticultural Research Institute of Ontario report
Box 5 Folder 7
Grape climate growing maps
Box 5 Folder 8
Grape breeders
Box 5 Folder 9
Publications
Box 5 Folder 10
Vitis taxonomy
Box 5 Folder 11
Species
Box 5 Folder 12
Wine labels, many with evaluations and tasting notes written on back
Box 5 Folder 13
Elmer Sewnson grape breeding
Box 5 Folder 14
Barrett
Box 5 Folder 15
Lincecumil
Box 5 Folder 16
Wine, brochures, articles, Taylor wine reports
Box 5 Folder 17
Records
Box 5 Folder 18
Vitis collection genetic germplasm resource
Box 5 Folder 19
Plant improvement breeding
Box 5 Folder 20
Germplasm notes
Box 5 Folder 21
Berry analysis
Box 5 Folder 22
Conversion
Box 5 Folder 23
Notes 1960s
Box 5 Folder 24
Nursery
Box 5 Folder 25
Old orders, fruit testing
Box 5 Folder 26
Orders
Box 5 Folder 27
Pomology
Box 5 Folder 28
Remaily collection notes
Box 5 Folder 29
Misc. notes
Box 5 Folder 30
Correspondence Art Neff Brights Fine Canadian Wines
Box 5 Folder 31
University of California, Davis
Box 5 Folder 32
Rootstocks
Box 5 Folder 33
Wine
Box 5 Folder 34
Wine breeding
Box 5 Folder 35
1968
Crosses
Box 5 Folder 36
1980s-1990s
Crosses
Box 5 Folder 37
Breeding records
Box 5 Folder 38
Breeding 1978
Box 5 Folder 39
Red color
Box 5 Folder 40
Requests, material sent
Box 5 Folder 41
Grape botany
Box 5 Folder 42
1973-1974
Nursery
Box 5 Folder 43
Eastern Grape Grower and Winery News correspondence
Box 5 Folder 44
Rootstock mother garden
Box 5 Folder 45
Plans
Box 5 Folder 46
Speciation
Box 5 Folder 47
Geneva vitis collectionm germplasm
Box 5 Folder 48
Misc. correspondence, F. H. Hasselbacher, Walter S. Taylor, F. S. de Villiers.
Box 5 Folder 49
Misc. items, notes, plat descriptions, wine
Box 5 Folder 50
Release of the Marquis grape Bruce Reisch
Box 5 Folder 51
Buckingham Township Pennsylvania land use project comprehensive plan, includes maps, letter from Bess Abell at the White House, correspondence.
Box 5 Folder 52
September 1987
Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter, with article by Remaily "Diversity of North American Species of Vitis"
Box 5 Folder 53
Misc. not grape related items articles, lists of quotes
Box 5 Folder 54
Pont De La Maye
Box 5 Folder 55
Breeding notes, polyploid
Box 5 Folder 56
Differentiation
Box 5 Folder 57
Manuscript for the Maternal Home Triumphant or Song of the Virtous Female Spider misc. other material.
Box 5 Folder 58
Scientific papers and journals on grape hybrids breeding genetics farming
Box 5 Folder 59
Misc. items
Box 5 Folder 60
Migration of species
Box 5 Folder 61
Taxonomy
Box 5 Folder 62
Misc. notes
Box 5 Folder 63
Exploration
Box 5 Folder 64
Eco-morphology
Box 5 Folder 65
Misc. notes
Box 5 Folder 66
1976-1977
Exploration
Box 5 Folder 67
Exploration report
Box 5 Folder 68
Exploration expense
Box 5 Folder 69
Exploration clones mother garden vineyard 25
Box 5 Folder 70
Exploration repository
Box 5 Folder 71
1973
First exploration
Box 5 Folder 72
Geneva breeding
Box 5 Folder 73
Pollen
Box 5 Folder 74
Training
Box 6 Folder 1
Vinifera New York Experiment Station
Box 6 Folder 2
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins, vinifera
Box 6 Folder 3
Remaily seedless
Box 6 Folder 4
Taxonomy
Box 6 Folder 5
Berry analysis and characters
Box 6 Folder 6
Flowering
Box 6 Folder 7
Lon J. Rombough correspondence
Box 6 Folder 8
Grape scientific articles, several by Barry L. Comeaux
Box 6 Folder 9
September 1973
International Symposium on Vine Breeding, speeches.
Box 6 Folder 10
Records
Box 6 Folder 11
Pages from La Vigne a Grand Rendementby Ravat
Box 6 Folder 12
Grape
Box 6 Folder 13
Monographies des meilleurs hybrides de vignes
Box 6 Folder 14
Misc. notes
Box 6 Folder 15
Misc. articles, grape and wine
Box 6 Folder 16
Vegetable Research Farm daily data, NYSAES Geneva
Box 6 Folder 17
Exploration written material
Box 6 Folder 18
Planning
Box 6 Folder 19
1996
Proposed release of grape cultivars
Box 6 Folder 20
Grape species catalog
Box 6 Folder 21
January 1, 1895
New York Agricultural Experiment Station letter from F.C. Stewart to Prof. Beach on seedless grapes
Box 6 Folder 22
Arkansas
Box 6 Folder 23
Grape varieties and species
Box 6 Folder 24
Report to the National Academy of Science on a Scientific Visit to Hungary and Poland by R. W. Robinson
Box 6 Folder 25
Misc. notes
Box 6 Folder 26
Misc. grape articles and clippings
Box 6 Folder 27
Misc. wine articles and clippings
Box 6 Folder 28
Misc. fruit articles and clippings
Box 6 Folder 29
Misc. non grape articles and clippings
Box 6 Folder 30
New and Noteworthy Fruits catalogs
Box 6 Folder 31
1944-1966
Register of New Fruit and Nut Varieties, several catalogs from List 1 to List 21
Box 6 Folder 32
Misc. grape publications and bulletins
Box 6 Folder 33
1960-1967
Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest, several issues from
Box 6 Folder 34
Misc. non grape ephemera, includes Flavor of Man William Penn Lecture by Jean Toomer, Foster Hall brochure, Philadelphia Orchestra program, book Physiocrates.
Box 6 Folder 35
Misc. notebooks covering a variety of topics. Vineyard notebooks, folders of information, daily notes, wine tasting, etc.
Box 7
Photographs and slides. Images mostly of grapes and grape vines, gardens, some photos of George Remaily and the area around his home.
Box 7