Volume 58 Number 1 Article 1
Year 2004 Month 1
Title: 'Harrow Diamond' Peach
Author: R.E.C. Layne
Abstract:
'Harrow Diamond' peach, the sixteenth
of Agriculture Canada's 20 peach
introductions from the former peach and
nectarine breeding program at Harrow (3),
is now the most important one grown in
Ontario that resulted from controlled
hybridization.
While grown to a limited
extent in British Columbia and Nova
Scotia, the only other provinces in Canada
where peaches can be grown on a limited
commercial scale, this 1984 peach
introduction was the third most important
peach cultivar in Ontario in 1999, the most
recent year for which tree census
information is available (1). In this census,
'Harrow Diamond' was the most
important of the early ripening freestone
cultivars, the third most important of all
freestone cultivars, and comprised 9.5%
of the total number of trees (835,631).
Only 'Redhaven' and 'Garnet Beauty,' at
14.4 and 9.6%, respectively, of the total
number of trees, exceeded 'Harrow
Diamond' in importance.
However, among
young trees in the one to three year age
group, 'Harrow Diamond' was in first
place, and comprised 22.3% of all trees
(209,933) in this age group.
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