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18 MUSCADINE CULTIVARS ADAPTED TO FLT
By J. A. Mortensen
Cultivars
Use
Black, female
fresh, wine fresh, wine
fresh fresh
wine
i . 1976 Mechanical
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yes yes yes
doubtful doubtful
Black, self-fertile2
Southland Magoon Cowart Chief Albemarle Tarheel
fresh, wine fresh, wine
fresh
juice, wine
fresh
wine
Bronze, femalel
Fry
Higgins
Scuppernong
Bronze, self-fertile2
fresh fresh wine
Carlos Dearing Welder
Magnolia
wine wine
fresh fresh
yes
doubtful
yes
no
Female cultivars require a self-fertile cultivar within 25 feet in order to set a full crop of fruit.
2 Self-fertile cultivars bear fruit alone and serve as pollinators for female cultivars.
Mimeo Report WG 73-1, August 30, 1972 Agricultural Research Center, Leesburg, Florida 150 copies
AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
Thomas Hunt Pride Jumbo Creek
yes yes
yes yes yes yes
no
no yes
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Tab le 2.
Soluble solids content and mean fruit weight of several
cantaloupe cultivars at Leesburg, 1969-1972.
Soluble solids (%) Pounds per melon
Cultivar 1969 1970 1971 1972 1969 1970 1971 1972
Harper Hybrid 13.1 2.7
Dulce 11.9 1.3
Samson Hybrid 11.8 11.0 10.6 11.2 2.7 2.5 3.5 3.2
Golden Perfection 11.2 2.3
Edisto 10.9 2.9
Saticoy Hybrid 11.5 10.0 10.7 11.1 3.1 3.1 3.9 3.7
Edisto 47 11.6 9.6 11.4 2.5 4.1 4.1
Burpee Hybrid 10.5 3.2
Super Market 10.3 2.4
Gulfstream 10.2 2.7
Planters Jumbo 9.7 9.0 10.8 10.9 3.1 3.1 4.6 4.3
Gulfcoast 11.1 9.0 10.2 3.8 3.1 3.0
Southland 10.2 8.7 3.4 3.5
Hales Best Jumbo 9.4 7.5 3.1 3.2
Harvest Queen 7.0 3.2
Table 3.
Cultivar
General disease resistance and downy mildew resistance of several cantaloupe cultivars at Leesburg, 1969-1972.
Disease resistance rating
General Downy mildew
1969 1971 1971 1972
Planters Jumbo 5 4 5 4
Samson Hybrid 5 4 4 3
Edisto 47 4 3 3
Southland 4 4 1
Gulfcoast 4 3 3
Gulfstream 3
Golden Perfection 3
Hales Best Jumbo 2
Saticoy Hybrid 1 2 2 2
Edisto 1
Harper Hybrid 1 1
Harvest Queen 1
Burpee Hybrid 1
z Rated from 1 to 5 with increasing disease resistance by
Dr. D. L. Hopkins, Assistant Plant Pathologist.
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