Monarch (AA 44) 



This cultivar is another blotchy cherry-red 

 apple from Arkansas. Quahty is very good for 

 this season. It has a good perfumy taste but 

 because of extensive preharvest drop, few may 

 reach the proper stage of maturity without the 

 use of a stop-drop treatment. Acidity is quite 

 high. It ripens slightly before Pavdared, but it is 

 superior to Paulared in taste. 



Nittany 



Very little is heard about this open polU- 

 nated seedling of York. It is fairly attractive, 

 oblong, and light cherry red. It ripens late, in 

 Rome Beauty season. It has a good sweet-tart 

 flavor that we rated very high. Although some 

 Nittany are grown in Pennsylvania, we believe 

 that we can grow a more attractive and perhaps 

 a better Nittany in southern New England. It is 

 a vigorous tree and fruit suffer from calcium 

 problems. 



Shamrock 



This cross between a spur Golden Delicious 

 and a spur Mcintosh is not reported to have high 

 quality, but we feel that it is versatile and a 

 potentially valuable cultivar. It tastes Granny 

 Smith-hke if picked just prior to Mcintosh sea- 

 son. The quality is at least as good as the 

 Granny Smith apples found in the store at this 



time of year. If allowed to stay on the tree iintil 

 late September or early October it develops a 

 very good Mcintosh taste. We feel that it is the 

 best green apple in the season. The tree is 

 grower-friendly, a semi-spur type, precocious, 

 and it is not biennial. 



Splendour 



This late-ripening red apple is from New 

 Zealand. It is attractive and has very good 

 flavor, but the skin is so thin that it cannot 

 withstand the rigors of packing, handling, and 

 long-distance shipping. The tree is a semi-spur 

 and very grower-friendly. It is a parent of the 

 new generation of apples from New Zealand and 

 British Columbia. 



Williams PHde 



This disease-resistant apple ripens with 

 Paulared but the quality is superior to 

 Paulared. Fruit are large, red, and somewhat 

 irregular in shape and the skin is not smooth. 

 White lenticels are prominent. Fruit is aro- 

 matic and flavor is mild but fruity and lively. 



We have several other cultivars under test 

 that we feel have the potential to go all the way 

 to the top, although they are not commercially 

 available yet. The most promising from the list 

 are: BC 8M 15-10, BC 17-30, Fantazja, and 

 NJ90. 



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