Lorne Doud, one of the founding members of the International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association, died on August 1 at the age of 92 in Wabash, Indiana. Doud graduated from the horticulture department at Purdue University, Indiana, in 1937. He and his wife, Betty, owned Doud Orchards in Miami County near Roann, ­Indiana. He was one of the first nurserymen in the country, beginning in 1940, to produce apple trees on the East Malling dwarfing rootstocks. He served on the Indiana Horticultural Society Executive Committee from 1939 to 1953 and received the society’s Distinguished Service Award in 1977. In the late […]