Ontario apple
| Ontario apple | |
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| Synonyms | Ontario |
Ontario |
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| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| origin | Ontario County , New York |
| known since | around 1874 |
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| List of apple varieties | |
The Ontario apple (short: Ontario ) is an old table fruit of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ), which belongs to the winter apples and was bred in the northeast of the USA in 1874 and is still cultivated in western and central Europe today. In the 1920s, it was one of the three apple varieties that were chosen as Reichsbrustsorten .
description
The tree is of medium growth and needs nutrient-rich soil. It blooms mid-late and bears large, greenish-yellow fruits, which on the sunny side are bluish-red to dark-red washed out and bluish frosted. The skin is smooth and pliable. It has small, light-colored peel points and can have isolated rust spots . The stem is surrounded by a spacious cavity that can be more rusty. The fruits have a greenish-white pulp that is soft, fine-celled and juicy. When ripe , the apple is tangy and has a high vitamin C content. Due to the flat, spherical shape of the fruit, the variety is less suitable for fruit sorting systems and has therefore recently become less widespread in commercial cultivation.
use
This variety also produces fruit in frosty years, as the flowers are unusually frost-hardy , and is popular as a pollen donor for other apple varieties. Since the wood is sensitive to frost at the same time, the Ontario is only suitable for warm locations with a risk of late frost, but not for locations with strong winter frosts. In mid-October to mid-November, he is ready for picking, but needs to be stored until it ripe enough to eat is. It has a long, unproblematic shelf life and can be eaten from December to May. It is also suitable as a baking apple and for making fruit juice .
Breeds and History
This apple variety was created in Ontario County ( New York State ) in 1874 by crossing Northern Spy and Wagener apple . In Europe it was brought onto the market in 1882 by the Transon Frères nursery from Orleans.
Around 1900 the Swiss orange apple was bred from Ontario and Jakob Lebel the Noble from Leipzig and in 1935 at the Wädenswil Research Station from Ontario and Cox Orangenrenette .
literature
- Walter Hartmann : Color Atlas of Old Fruit Types. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3173-0 .
- Herbert Petzold: Apple varieties. Neumann-Verlag from 1979
Web links
- Index card of the variety in the BUND-Lemgo fruit variety database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fruit growing advice Baden-Württemberg: Ontario , accessed on February 11, 2015.
- ^ Fr. Lucas - The most valuable table and commercial apples, Third Edition, 1912, Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart. Retrieved April 1, 2014 .
- ↑ streuobstapfel.de. Retrieved April 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Fruit growing advice Baden-Württemberg: Ontario , accessed on February 11, 2015.
- ↑ Gardening magazine "After work": Ontario (PDF; 82 kB), fruit table 026.
- ↑ Manfred Fischer in Obst & bGarten : The whole world of the apple , April 2006, p. 121.
- ↑ Fruit growing advice Baden-Württemberg: Swiss orange apple ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 11, 2015.
