Volume 53 Number 3 Article 20
Year 1999 Month 7
Title: ´Harvester` Peach
Author: C.J. Graham
Abstract:
The North Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station (now known as the Calhoun
Research Station) at Calhoun, LA
was founded in 1888 and has been involved with cultivar testing and development of improved cultural practices for
peaches since 1889. A breeding program
to develop superior peach cultivars was
initiated in 1951 as a cooperative effort
between the Louisiana State University
Department of Horticulture at Baton
Rouge, LA and the Calhoun Research Station.
The Calhoun Research Station would
develop high chill requirement cultivars
(700+ hr. below 7°C) and the Idlewild
Station located at Clinton, LA was used as
a site to test and develop medium chill requirement peach cultivars (400-700 hr.
below 7°C).
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