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  • From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Apple breeding
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:00:18 -0500

Vic,
I have some Minn 447 - got my first apple last fall. I don't think it is
hard to find. Corn Hill nursery in N.Brunswick sells trees of it.

About parentage of Sweet 16, most authors say it is Minn 477 x Northern
Spy, while some others claim it is Minn 447 x N.Spy. I imagine someone has
made a typing error somewhere which led to this confusion. Anyone out there
knows for sure if it is Minn 447 or 477?

Thanks,
Claude

A 10:33 01.01.16 +0000, vous avez écrit :
>John,
>Do you know more about MN447 and if it is possible to get scions of it? Do
you
>think it would do well in our northeast zones 3 and 4?
....................vic
>
>john bunker wrote:
>
>> Doug:
>>
>> Re: Malinda
>>
>> My understanding is that when the Minnesota breeding program
began at
>> the Fruit Breeding Farm south of Excelsior in 1908 (now the U of MN
>> Horticultural Research Center), they needed a source of apple seed. It
>> was as much by chance as devise that Malinda was the choice, as there
>> happened to be an orchard nearby with a lot of Malinda trees. And it's
>> interesting to me that an apple considered by most to be mediocre and
>> selected arbitrarily produced such a number of superior offspring. At
>> least ten of Minnesota's introductions have Malinda in the parentage
>> including, of course, Sweet Sixteen, Keepsake, Chestnut, Haralson,
>> Honeygold and Honeycrisp. By the way, as you know Sweet Sixteen is
>> frequently mentioned for its unique combination of flavors. I've been
>> told that MN 447, one of Sweet 16's parents and itself an offspring of
>> Malinda, has that same taste only more so.
>>
>> John Bunker








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