Volume 33 Number 3 Article 5 Pages: 91-94
Year 1979 Month 7
Title: The New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association—60 Years of New Fruit Varieties
Author: R.C. Lamb
Citation
Abstract:
Sixty years ago the New York State
Fruit Testing Cooperative Association, Geneva, N.Y. was incorporated.
The purpose of this non-profit organization was to provide an efficient
means of getting new varieties from
the fruit breeding program of the
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva introduced
into the fruit growing trade.
Another
objective was to get a wider test and
quicker evaluation for promising new
selections and new varieties.
Healthy,
true-to-name fruit trees of new and
promising varieties were made available to growers who in turn were encouraged to report on the performance of these fruit varieties under
their conditions.
These remain in the
basic purposes of the Fruit Testing
Association today.
The aims have
been broadened to encompass new
pomological technology such as special rootstocks and virus-free material.
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