Volume 47 Number 2 Article 1 Pages: 70-72
Year 1993 Month 4
Title: The History of the 'Empire' Apple
Authors: M. Derkacz, D.C. Elfving and C.G. Forshey
Citation
Abstract:
In 1945, unusually warm spring weather, a
very early bloom in mid-April, and postbloom
frosts eliminated virtually all crosses made for
the N.Y. State Agricultural Experiment Station
apple breeding program in Geneva, NY. The
apple breeding material for 1945 was comprised
of seed collections from isolated commercial
orchards in the Hudson Valley containing only
the desired cultivar pairs for crosses.
One such
collection contained 'Mclntosh' seeds from an
orchard of mature 'Mclntosh' and 'Delicious'
trees near Claverack, NY. A seedling tree from
this collection was selected as NY45500-5 in
1954. This seedling was named 'Empire' in
1966.
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