Volume 51 Number 2 Article 11
Year 1997 Month 4
Title: ´Cortland` Apple
Authors: R.D. Way and S.K. Brown
Abstract:
'Cortland' is one of the few apple cultivars
of hundreds originating from controlled apple breeding programs early in
the 20th century that was good enough
to become extensively grown on a commercial scale.
In 1923, it was awarded
the silver Wilder Medal by the American
Pomological Society (58). By 1965, 50
years after its introduction, 'Cortland'
had become the third most important
cultivar grown in New York State, which
was then the second most important
apple state in the U.S.; 'Mclntosh' and
'Rhode Island Greening' being the two
leading cultivars.
Although its importance declined in the latter half of the
century, in mid-century it was the most
important apple cultivar introduced
from Geneva; later, 'Jonagold' and 'Empire' surpassed it.
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