Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest (J Fruit Var & Hort Digest)
Volume 25 Number 2 Article 2 Pages: 30-30
Year 1971 Month 4
Title: Promising Apple Varieties for Southern Illinois
Author: APS Citation
Abstract:
James B. Mowry reported on the
performance of apple varieties at
Southern University at Carbondale,
during the 1969 A.P.S. meeting in
Arkansas.
The primary purpose of the
apple testing program at Carbondale
is to find "early maturing, red colored,
attractive dessert and culinary apples
that are firm enough to be handled in
wholesale fresh market channels." Because
of high prevailing temperatures
and high absolute humidity, apple varieties
develop less color, are less attractive,
and are more susceptible to
fire blight at Carbondale than the
same varieties in more northern locations.
Some 88 varieties of all seasons
were tested, including many new introductions
and numbered selections.
"The following varieties are noteworthy
for attractive fruits and lack offire
blight susceptibility at Carbondale,
and are worthy of more extensive
trial planting by commercial apple
growers: Quinte, Julyred, Viking,
Beverly Hills, Red Gravenstein, Ozark
Beauty, Prima, Cortland, Kendall,
Holland, Ruby, and Blushing Golden.
Julyred, Viking, Beverly Hills and Prima
are still in their early fruiting
years, so their index (fire blight susceptibility)
may change." (See Proc.,Ark.
State Hort.
Soc., 1969, for more
details.)
