Description
Ontario selection ripens early - even in cooler summers - and will excel throughout cool and/or short summer regions (although we still don't recommend nectarines to Western WA growers)
Mature Size: 6' x 5'
and bloom mid-late (bloom group 4)
Often in flower and fruit at the same time
to avoid lapsing into a biennial bearing pattern
Karp's Sweet Quince Els PW 28460 Ontario selection ripens early -Cydonia oblonga 'Karp's Sweet' Finally available to American gardeners, this quince is uniquely sweet, juicy and non astringent, especially when grown in warm climates. Named for the fruit connoisseur and writer David Karp, this cultivar comes to us through Edgar Valdivia whose family grew it at lower elevations in Peru. We tasted fresh fruit Valdivia had grown in California, and it was sweeter and less woody than other quinces, living up to the