Schenectady
AppleSchenectady
Origin / History
Schenectady resulted from the cross Ben Davis x Mother, made in 1899. The breeding record number was 5558, and the seedling number was 47. It was selected in 1911 from a population of 22 seedlings. It was a sister of Rockland. It was introduced in 1915, along with five other cultivars named at the same time. It was named for Schenectady County, New York. The breeding research that resulted in the origin of Schenectady was described by Hedrick and Wellington (94). The cultivar was described by Hedrick, and trees were distributed to fruit growers in 1915 (88). No Schenectady trees were in the Station's apple cultivar test orchard during the 20-year period before 1968. Trees identifiable as Schenectady were probably not living anywhere. No Schenectady trees were known to be living in 1969.
Tree
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Fruit
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Other
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Book Sources
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— Roger D. Way, Apple Cultivars Introduced by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, 1914–1968 (1971)Schenectady
Schenectady resulted from the cross, Ben Davis x Mother, made in 1899. The breeding record number was 5558, and the seedling number was 47. It was selected in 1911 from a population of 22 seedlings and was a sister of Rockland. It was introduced in 1915 along with five other cultivars named at the same time (Table 2). It was named for Schenectady County, New York. During the 20-year period before 1968, no Schenectady trees were in the Station's apple cultivar test orchard. Probably, no trees identifiable as Schenectady were living anywhere. The breeding research which resulted in the origin of Schenectady was described by Hedrick and Wellington (94). The cultivar was described by Hedrick, and trees of it were distributed to fruit growers in 1915 (88). Because no Schenectady trees were known to be living in 1969, it is not discussed any further here.