Volume 56 Number 2 Article 12
Year 2002 Month 4
Title: Split Pits in Canadian Peaches
Authors: C. O'Malley and J.T.A.Proctor
Abstract:
Commercial production of peaches in
Ontario, Canada, began around 1820 in the
Niagara Peninsula and expanded to Essex
County, along Lake Erie.
Approximately
80% of Canada's peach production is in
Ontario; British Columbia and Nova Scotia produce the remaining 19 and 1% respectively (16). In 2000, Ontario produced
22,226 tonnes of peaches on 2,185 hectares
of land, representing a farm value of $23.9
million (23).
In Ontario, there are two research stations that have introduced new peach cultivars
to Canada: Vineland and Harrow.
The
older, Vineland Research Station, developed its first peach Breeding objectives in
1911. These objectives were: 1) to extend
the season for peaches of the 'Elberta' type
with earlier and later maturing cultivars.; 2)
to improve cultivars, with particular emphasis on the development of attractive,
freestone cultivars with yellow flesh for the
early season; 3) to produce cultivars of the
yellow flesh, clingstone type suitable for
canning and adapted to Ontario soil and climatic conditions; and 4) to produce white
flesh cultivars with good shipping qualities
suitable for exporting overseas. (24). The
first two objectives were the focal points of
Vineland's breeding program until the mid
1960s (16). The fourth objective was never
pursued.
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