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Earliness of flowering and fruiting of forty strawberry varieties; A statistical study

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For the purpose of strawberry breeding the earliness of flowering and the rate of fruit development of strawberries should be considered two independent properties. This is the main conclusion from a statistical study of the dates of flowering and harvest of 40 varieties in one-year-old plants grown in the open.

Further it was found that in a number of varieties the date of first flowers is influenced by the temperature in November, that is, a warm November delays flowering.

The vigour of the plant appeared not to be correlated with the date of flowering.

Certain high temperatures appeared to depress the rate of fruit development.

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    J. H. A. Ferguson

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Ferguson, J.H.A. Earliness of flowering and fruiting of forty strawberry varieties; A statistical study. Euphytica 20, 362–370 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00035661

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