Britemac, a McIntosh Season, Dessert Apple Variety for New Jersey
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1965.19.2.29Abstract
Britemac is a new McIntosh type apple recently introduced by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. It is a seedling of (Melba-McIntosh open pollinated) x (Kildare-Langford Beauty open pollinated). The cross was made by Prof. M. A. Blake in 1934. Britemac fruited for the first time and was selected in 1941. It was first distributed for trial as 88634 and later distributed as NJ3. Prof. Blake's first few years' notes describe it as an attractive dessert apple that hangs well. The first years it fruited he ripened it before McIntosh, but at the time of its first propagation it was considered to be ripe with or after McIntosh: At that time, Prof. Blake again described Britemac as being of better color and firmer than McIntosh' and as hanging well.
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