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Improved Fruit Varieties
Is Aim of Research
Hope for improved fruit varieties for Virginia farmers is seen in fruit breeding plots at Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.
Dr. George D. Oberle, horticulturist at the Station, says three seedling hectarine selections, which have been marked "outstanding” in years past, again were top performers. Two of the nectarines are white-fleshed, the other yellow-fleshed. All are freestone, and of good quality. They showed a high level of resistance to brown rot, while many other nectarines and some peach varieties were hard hit by that disease.
Among the apple seedlings that gained attention was a Winesap by Opalescent seedlings, which has yielded good crops for four consecutive years. The fruit is of medium size, highly colored, firm,and has quality similar to that of Stayman. A seedling of York crossed with Lowry also was noteworthy.
It is highly colored fine grained, and its firm flesh has the best keeping qualities of any of the varieties now being tested in the Station orchards.
Red raspberries that seem to be superior to those now recommended for Virginia planting also are found in the test plots. Several of these
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