Ruby Apple, a Cross of Gallia Beauty and Starking

Abstract

The long-time apple breeding program of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station is now quite literally bearing fruit. In the last few years three new apple varieties have been selected and named. Then as recently as March, 1952 a third variety was named Ruby. The choice was not difficult for the fruit is so strikingly red as to immediately recall the stone which has become practically synonymous with redness. No other seedling produced by our breeding program has shown fruits of such brilliant, over-all carmine, although perhaps the color pattern is less attractively varied than that of Franklin ( Farm & Home Research, Jan.-Feb., 1952). In addition, the fruits tend to be large, solid. and round, though to be more precise they should be described as rounded, oblongconic.