Volume 18 Number 1 Article 2 Pages: 3-5
Year 1963 Month 11
Title: The National Fruit Trials
Author: J.M.S. Potter
Citation
Abstract:
Soon after the first world war, with
a reviving interest in fruit growing,
the need for disinterested trials to
evaluate new varieties of hardy fruits
became apparent in Great Britain.
Trials of cereals and other short-lived
crops had been in existence many
years, although a farmer wishing to
try a new wheat or a new cabbage had
little to lose if the variety failed.
On
the other hand, a fruit grower who
planted a new variety would probably
have to wait about ten years before
he found whether or not it came up
to commercial standards and failure
would be costly.
The originator of a
new variety is quite naturally going to
advertise his article and emphasize its
merits rather than its faults, in an endeavour
to persuade growers to plant
his variety.
It was therefore felt that
trials of hardy fruits should be established
to provide growers with a
yardstick.
To this end, the National
Fruit Trials were established in 1922
through the joint efforts of the Royal
Horticultural Society and the Ministry
of Agriculture.
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