Strawberry Cultivar Testing in Canada’s Maritime Provinces

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 S ¹), 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 Charlottetown test plots in 1972 and 1973 because it had performed well in observational type test plots at Kentville.