Volume 30 Number 3 Article 6 Pages: 84-89
Year 1976 Month 7
Title: Strawberry Cultivar Testing in Canada's Maritime Provinces
Authors: D.L. Craig, W.B. Collins and J.A. Cutcliffe
Citation
Abstract:
Co-operative testing of strawberry cultivars at the Agriculture Canada Research Strations at Kentville, Nova Scotia, Fredericton, New Brunswick and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was first undertaken in 1967 and reported in Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest, V. 25, No.4, 1971. A new group of cultivars became available for testing in 1970. THese cultivars and their place of origin were: 'Bounty' and 'S68-108' (Tioga x Guardsman S1), Kentville, N.S.;'Veestar' and 'Vibrant', 'Vineland', Ontario; 'Redcoat', Ottawa; 'Raritan', New Jersey; 'Guardian' and 'Redchief', Maryland.
Plants of the cultivar 'Guardian' were not available for planting at Kentville in 1970. 'S68-108' was placed in the Kentville and the Charllotteville test plots in 1972 and 1973 because it had performmed well in observational type test plots at Kentville.
PLants for all test plots were grown in propagation beds at Kentville.
The cultivars were planted at the 3 locations in 4 randomized complete blocks of 10 plants per plot each spaced 2 feet apart in rows 4 1/2 feet apart.
The plants formed matted rows which were maintained at a 2-foot width.
Alle plots were plowed under after producing one crop of fruit.
Standard fertility and pesticide progrmas were used at all locations.
Fruit was considered unmarketable when it was malformed, damaged by rot or mechanically damaged.
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