The History of the ‘Empire’ Apple
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1993.47.2.70Abstract
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 ‘McIntosh’ seeds from an orchard of mature ‘McIntosh’ 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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