Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1998-10-22
2001-10-30
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP012173
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention concerns a new and distinct cultivar of raspberry plant with a botanical name of
Rubus ideaus L.
DESCRIPTION OF RELATED PRIOR ART
Several cultivars of raspberry plant are known. For instance, raspberry cultivars named ‘Anne’, ‘Caroline’ and ‘Lauren’ have been described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,411, 10,412 and 10,610, respectively. The new and distinct cultivar of the present invention is a raspberry plant named ‘Josephine’. This new and distinct cultivar of the present invention differs from ‘Anne’ in bearing red fruit, while ‘Anne’ bears golden fruit. Compared with ‘Anne’, ‘Josephine’ also has simpler leaf serration, produces more root-and crown-suckers and has a later ripeness period for the fruit, which is usually more free from rot in the field. ‘Josephine’ can be distinguished from ‘Caroline’ in that ‘Josephine’ yields a lower proportion of cane producing fruit and has a later ripeness period for the fruit, which is larger and has less fruit rot and late season rust. ‘Josehphine’ leaves do not regularly curl in high sun and warm temperatures as ‘Caroline’. ‘Josephine’ and ‘Lauren’ are both red raspberry cultivars, but ‘Josephine’ can be distinguished from ‘Lauren’ in that ‘Josephine’ is fall bearing, while ‘Lauren’ is spring bearing.
ORIGIN OF THE NEW CULTIVAR
The new cultivar of fall bearing red raspberry originated from a controlled cross at the University of Maryland Greenhouses in College Park, Md. The cross “EF” was ‘Amity’ (unpatented)בGlen Gerry’ (unpatented) and was made in the winter of 1989. This year was designated “J” as part of the University of Maryland at College Park; Rutgers University of New Brunswick, N.J.; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Education Center at Blackstone; and the University of Wisconsin at River Falls cooperative breeding program. The clone was first selected in 1992 at the Rutgers Cream Ridge Fruit Agricultural Experiment Station and was therefore designated “-f1”. Thus, the complete breeding designation was “JEF-f1”. JEF-b1, a sister seedling named ‘Anne’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,411, was selected a year earlier in Blackstone, Va.
SUMMARY OF THE NEW CULTIVAR
This application relates to a new and distinct red fruited, fall bearing raspberry cultivar, botanically known as
Rubus ideaus L.
The following characteristics are outstanding:
1. Production of fruit on primocanes which is much more cohesive than the standard cultivars in use and equal to that of all but one of the new cultivars available for trial; ‘Autumn Britton’ (unpatented).
2. In all the areas of test of this selection, the fruit is larger than all cultivars known to us, except its sister seedling ‘Anne’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,411) and ‘Ruby’, a cultivar from New York. The fruit is later than ‘Anne’ and has a different color. It is much firmer and cohesive than ‘Ruby’ (syn. ‘Watson’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,067).
3. It is productive, but later in the season than all of the cultivars known to us to be presently in use. This characteristic makes it suitable for completing the season in California, the Mid-Atlantic States and in the southern Mid-West. As this cultivar was tested as a primocane bearer, meaning all overwintering canes were removed, no claim is made regarding its cold hardiness or chilling requirement.
The following characteristics are useful in distinguishing this cultivar from other cultivars and can be useful for cultivar identification.
1. Plants are modeately suckering (about 65-70 sucker plants per 10 foot of row) and very upright, producing about three quarters as many canes as ‘Heritage’ (unpatented) and growing to 4 feet or taller when mature.
2. The fruit is round conic with a cavity about 40% of the fruit diameter, very cohesive, red and very symmetrical. Drupelets will often tear in half before separating from the neighboring drupelets.
3. The fruit has an even collar and has a noticeable amount of pubescence when ripe.
4. Primocanes are light green (Royal Horticultural Society plate 145A) with a red blush (Royal Horticulural Society plate 183A) and only a moderate amount of characteristic stout red colored (Royal Horticultural Society plate 183A) thorns per node. Fruit is typicallly 2-3 weeks later to initate ripening than ‘Caroline’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,412), ‘Heritage’ (unpatented) and ‘Autumn Britton’ (unpatented), new standards for fall production in the United States. Fruit will appear on the upper quarter of the cane.
5. The cultivar may be distinguished from its sister, ‘Anne’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,411), by its red fruit and thorns and simpler leaf serration.
REFERENCES:
patent: P.P. 653 (1945-03-01), Drain
patent: P.P. 5404 (1985-02-01), Sanford et al.
patent: P.P. 10610 (1998-09-01), Swartz et al.
Fiola Joseph A.
Smith Brian R.
Stiles Herbert D.
Swartz Harry Jan
Baker Wendy C
Campell Bruce R.
University of Maryland
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