Albert Etter Apples introduced in 1944 catalog |
All were co-patented with Albert Etter and George Roeding, Jr.
Tom Hart presented the Legacy of Albert Etter in 2019.
The 2020 CiderCon session at Filoli was about historic orchards and with a talk by Tom Hart.
Described in the catalog here are the six varieties. Notice that Patents were applied for the varieties. Wikipedia has been updated with links to the patents. |
- Etter was originally a strawberry breeder in Northern California on his remote homestead, Ettersberg. He started breeding apples in the late 1920's.
- Etter crossed wide varieties for his new varieties unlike other hybridizers. Many varieties have the crab apple in their parentage.
- The pink-fleshed varieties were noted as appealing to children.
References
- Plant Patents - the first one was a rose 1931
- The Plant Patents for the Etter Apples are on the Albert Etter wikipedia page.
- Someone's account at Filoli event for CiderCon 2020.
- "Apple Breeding at Ettersberg"
- Jerry Rohde Rohde, Jerry. Southwest Humboldt Hinterlands. The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022.
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