New York APPLES NAMED

摘要

Those two new apple varieties formerly called New York 1 and New York 2 and now named SnapDragon and RubyFrost were named "the good fashioned way, with hard work." That's according to Jeff Crist, vice chair of the board of directors of NYAG (New YorkApple Growers) and a fruit grower from Walden, New York, who disclosed the names on August 1, during the annual fruit field days at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva. The new varieties were developed by Cornell University applebreeder Dr. Susan Brown, who announced their release in May 2010, at which time she also told how they would be commercialized. Only New York growers who are members of NYAG (some 143) can grow them. At the time of their release, the apples were not named.