Volume 45 Number 1 Article 1
Year 1991 Month 1
Title: The 'Gala' Apple
Author: A.G. White
Abstract:
'Gala; one of a new breed of apple
taking the world by storm, is a small
to medium apple with an orange-red
stripe over a cream-yellow background.
The outstanding characteristics of 'Gala'
fruit are its crisp, juicy flesh and its
pleasant refreshing flavor.
'Gala' owes its existence to the vision
of J.H. Kidd, a New Zealand fruit,.
grower who began making apple
crosses in his Wairarapa orchard in the
19208. Kidd had definite ideas about
what he wanted of an apple, and he
deplored the trend towards poor eating
quality in new apple cultivars.
In
his view, crosses between high-yielding
North American cultivars, with
attractive, sweet fruit, and English
cultivars with more highly flavored
fruit, would produce the ideal apple.
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