Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest (J Fruit Var & Hort Digest)
Volume 15 Number 3 Article 12 Pages: 59-59
Year 1961 Month 3
Title: More on Connell Red Apple
Author: G. Yates Citation
Abstract:
One of the newer apples on the
American scene which holds promise
of much success is the Connell Red.
It originated in western Wisconsin,
and seems to have just about everything
desired.
Connell Red is a beautiful, large,
red, rather round apple, with excellent
flavor for eating fresh, as well as
acceptable cooking quality.
Its keeping
qualities are perhaps better than
Winesap, and it could be marketed
for the May, June, July trade without
controlled atmosphere (CA) storage.
Recently a number of growers in
Minnesota met to discuss the future
of this apple.
The concensus of opinion
was that it will be a premium
priced apple–perhaps $1.00 per bushel
box above Delicious of a similar
grade.
Because it is a much better
keeper than Delicious, and does not
require CA storage, and because it is
hardy and productive, it bids fair to
becoming a commercial variety in
many parts of the United States.
Connell
Red is being planted heavily in
Wisconsin and Minnesota now, and
is already known as a commercial
variety in this area.—Gordon Yates,
Mngr., Fruit Acres, Inc., La Crescent,
Minn.
