Volume 9 Number 4 Article 1 Pages: 51-52
Year 1954 Month 12
Title: The Importance of the Variety
Author: W.H. Chandler
Citation
Abstract:
The most significant thing in orchard
horticulture and in orchard
history is the clonal variety.
By
scion propagation, one seedling tree
or mutant branch may, through the
years or centuries, have millions of
descendants as nearly identical with
it as the different environments permit.
In apples and pears, at least, the
fruit of many varieties that have been
discarded because of market quality,
was far superior in quality to the
characteristic fruit of the species, and
even far superior to that of the average
seedling that can be grown from
the best market varieties.
Yet even in
districts where the best varieties are
profitable, an orchardist can be made
bankrupt by having too much of his
planting composed of varieties that
have not yet been completely discarded
or those popular only in some
local markets.
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