The Postal Service will
dedicate the 2-cent Meyer Lemons definitive stamp today at a First-Day-of-Issue
ceremony during the 2018 Winter Stamp Fest and Postcard Show in Kenner, LA.
The Meyer Lemon is a citrus fruit thought to be a cross between a true lemon and either a mandarin or common orange. The stamp design is new to the ongoing Fruit definitive series, which began almost exactly two years ago when the 10¢ Red Pears stamp was issued in a coil of 10,000. Other stamps depicting apples, grapes and strawberries, in various coils or in panes of 20, have been issued in this series.
For more than a century, the Meyer lemon was known mostly for its looks. In its native China, it was primarily a decorative houseplant. The Meyer lemon might still be decorating homes today if it weren't for one man. In the early 1900s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent Frank N. Meyer, an agricultural explorer, on several trips to Asia with the mission of collecting new plant species. Among more than 2,500 plants that he introduced to the U.S., the Meyer lemon was named in his honor. Sadly, Meyer would never live to see the success of his namesake. He died on an expedition near Shanghai in 1918.
The Meyer Lemon is a citrus fruit thought to be a cross between a true lemon and either a mandarin or common orange. The stamp design is new to the ongoing Fruit definitive series, which began almost exactly two years ago when the 10¢ Red Pears stamp was issued in a coil of 10,000. Other stamps depicting apples, grapes and strawberries, in various coils or in panes of 20, have been issued in this series.
For more than a century, the Meyer lemon was known mostly for its looks. In its native China, it was primarily a decorative houseplant. The Meyer lemon might still be decorating homes today if it weren't for one man. In the early 1900s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent Frank N. Meyer, an agricultural explorer, on several trips to Asia with the mission of collecting new plant species. Among more than 2,500 plants that he introduced to the U.S., the Meyer lemon was named in his honor. Sadly, Meyer would never live to see the success of his namesake. He died on an expedition near Shanghai in 1918.
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