Apple tree `Co-op 32`

Abstract

This invention is a new and distinct cultivar of apple tree (Malus Xdomestica Borkh). It was discovered in the course of an attempt to develop improved apple cultivars with high fruit quality and resistance to Venturia inaequalis (Cke.) Wint., the casual agent of the scab disease of apple. The tree is a seedling of known parentage planted in Apr. 15,1975 in the HF Block of an apple breeding orchard on the Hinsley tract of the Purdue Horticulture Research Farm, West Lafayette, Ind., in row 34. Because the trees in this row were spaced very closely its tree number was not recorded. When selected it had the designation PRI 2946-1 in the breeding records and was tested under the designations HFRow 34 and Co-op 32.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct apple tree as shown and described, characterized by resistance to apple scab, fire blight, powdery mildew, and cedar-apple rust, and early season yellow apple about 1.5 weeks after `Yellow Transparent` and `Lodi` with very good dessert quality based on flavor and crisp breaking flesh, and excellent storage ability for an early apple.