Frederick V. Coville and the History of North American Highbush Blueberry Culture

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TABLE 1 Cultivars Released by F. V. Coville and His Crosses That Were Released as Cultivars after His Death in 1937

Cultivars released	Year	After 1937	Year
Rube	— ^z	Angola	1951
Pioneer	1920	Atlantic	1939
Katharine	1920	Berkeley	1949
Greenfield	1926	Bluecrop	1952
Rancocas	1926	Blueray	1955
Jersey	1928	Burlington	1939
Concord	1928	Collins	1959
June	1930	Coville	1949
Stanley	1930	Croatan	1954
Scammell	1931	Earliblue	1952
Redskin	1932	Ivanhoe	1951
Catawba	1932	Murphy	1950
Wareham	1936	Pemberton	1939
Weymouth	1936	Wolcott	1950
Dixi	1936
^zRubel was selected from the wild in 1912.

TABLE 2 Ranking by planted hectares in the United States in 1992 of cultivars released by F. V. Coville and his seedlings that were released after his death in 1937 (figures from Moore, 1993)

Ranking	Cultivar	Hectares	Acres	U.S. acreage, (%)
1.	Bluecrop	6,173	15,253	35
2.	Jersey	3,030	7,487	17
3.	Weymouth	996	2,461	6
4.	Croatan	948	2,342	5
5.	Blueray	740	1,829	4
7.	Rubel	551	1,362	3
8.	Berkeley	420	1,038	2
11.	Earliblue	189	467	1
14.	Collins	106	262	1
15.	Murphy	95	235	0.5
16.	Coville	85	210	0.5
Total		13,333	32,945	75

Moore , J.N. 1993 . Blueberry cultivars of North America . HortTechnology , 3 : 370 – 374 .

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