To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Quince - pear compatability
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:45:12 -0500 (EST)
Eric, some years ago Ken Taylor tested the Polish Pigwa Cydonia oblonga
rootstock quinces which he got from Vineland Ontario, at his farm at
Montreal (Isle Perrot) and found that they did not survive a test winter.
I doubt that commercial fruiting cultivars of Cydonia oblonga readily
available in Ontario would be any hardier.
My guess is that tha hardiest Cydonia oblonga cultivars might be Leskovac
(Geant de Leskovac) and possibly Vranja from Jugoslavia. Both the namesake
towns are on high ground, near the plateau which Frank Skinner said had
some of the cold-hardiest plants in Europe.
Years ago I read that a botanic garden at either Malmo or
Gothenburg/Goteborg
in Sweden had experimented with Leskovac as a rootstock, in the 1940's.
I didn't hear what the result was.
For new cultivars of increased hardiness, seed might be planted from these
hardy Yoslavian cultivars, from wild (feral?) quinces in cold areas of
Serbia or Montenegro or Kosovo, or perhaps from wild quinces in the area
of origin (Caucasus?).
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Siloam
Orchards wrote:
Can anyone confirm that fruiting Quince is compatible grafted onto the Old
Home Farmingdale rootstocks 333, 87, 97?
Thanks, Eric