Plants – Rose – Climber
Plant Patent
1998-10-06
2001-01-23
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Rose
Climber
Plant Patent
active
PP011746
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the East Coast and Great Lakes regions, summer red raspberry harvest generally peaks in mid-July creating a considerable gap prior to harvest of primocane fruiting raspberries in mid-August. Providing a red raspberry plant which matures a high percentage of fruit from late July to early August in said regions, would have the benefit of decreasing the gap between summer and fall harvest seasons.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of red raspberry plant, named ‘Encore,’ that matures a high percentage of fruit from late July to early August in the East Coast and Great Lakes regions, thereby extending the summer harvest season and decreasing the gap between the summer and fall harvest seasons. It provides commercial yields of large size fruit from late July to early August in said regions. It has been consistent in its performance over many years of testing. It has consistently expressed good winter hardiness, optimum vigor, and superior fruit size and fruit yields on an annual basis.
‘Encore’ plants are winter hardy in zone 5 and are vigorous. Vigor is above average when compared to standard cultivars.
The leaves are dark green when mature and healthy and have a coarse upper surface with noticeable ridges. The leaf serrations are larger than those of ‘Taylor’ (unpatented) red raspberry plant leaves but the leaf edges are not notched like those of ‘Tulameen’ (unpatented) red raspberry plants. The leaf serrations are not as distinctly pointed as those of ‘Titan’ (patented as N.Y. 883, U.S. Plant Pat. No. P.P. 5,404) red raspberry plants. The leaves have moderate hair density on the upper leaf surface. The hairs are shorter and present in less density than the hairs on leaves of ‘Titan’ (unpatented) red raspberry plants and they are more widely distributed than the hairs on leaves of ‘Taylor’ red raspberry plants.
Actively growing terminals on primocanes have a light green color.
The color of newly expanded primocane leaves of ‘Encore’ is most similar to Yellow Green 145—Group A compared to Yellow Green 149—Group A for ‘Heritage’, Green 141—Group C for ‘Titan’, and Green 140—Group A for ‘Taylor’. These color codes correspond to those in The Royal Horticultural Society Color Chart, London.
The canes of the ‘Encore’ raspberry plant are nearly spineless, are sturdy and do not require trellising. A very few short spines which point downwardly are present on the dormant cane base, and the cane base color is different from that of ‘K81
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6’ (unpatented), ‘Titan,’ ‘Taylor’ and ‘Canby’ (unpatented) red raspberry plants. The tip of the dormant cane of ‘Encore’ red raspberry plants is spineless whereas this is not the case for K81-6, ‘Titan’ and ‘Taylor’ red raspberry plants, and the color of the dormant cane tip of ‘Encore’ is different from that of the dormant cane tip of ‘Canby’ and K81-6 red raspberry plants.
Root suckering is above average, when compared to standard cultivars.
‘Encore’ fruit are attractive, large in size with firm texture and have a good balanced flavor.
‘Encore’ red raspberry plants are more productive, larger fruited and later maturing than the late maturing ‘Taylor’ red raspberry cultivar.
‘Encore’ red raspberry plants are distinctly later maturing, have similar fruit size, are only slightly less productive and are less susceptible to Phytophthora, compared to the late maturing ‘Titan’ cultivar.
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Program and Abstracts Seventh International Rubus-Ribes Symposium Australia and New Zealand, Jan. 9-16, 1998, title page and p. 7.
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New York Berry Grower, Apr. 1998, pp. 1 and 7.
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New York's Food and Life Sciences Bulletin, No. 152, Jan., 1998.
Maloney Kevin E.
Ourecky Donald K.
Reich Jack E.
Sanford John C.
Baker Wendy A
Campell Bruce R.
Cornell Research Foundation Inc.
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