Columbia

Document 34

Title: Columbia

Source URL: https://research-groups.usask.ca/fruit/documents/apples/Columbia.pdf

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Aliases: 1 | Provenance events: 2 | Evidence claims: 24

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ID	Relation	Source	Target	Source Doc
181	mentioned_in_document	Central Experimental Farm	Columbia	34
180	mentioned_in_document	Prairie Orchards	Columbia	34
179	mentioned_in_document	Dominion Experimental Farm	Columbia	34

History Records

ID	Type	Year	Label
365	year_reference	1911	Year reference 1911
367	cross_event	1911	Dominion E x perimental Farm Service
368	cross_event	1911	Originated at the Central E x perimental Farm
370	nursery_mention	1911	Dominion Experimental Farm
371	nursery_mention	1911	Prairie Orchards
372	nursery_mention	1911	Central Experimental Farm
366	year_reference	1946	Year reference 1946
369	selection_origin_event		Selection origin Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Agriculture Canada, by Dr

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Cultivar: Columbia

Pages in document: p1

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Page	Basis	Snippet
1	named_entry_heading	Columbia

Raw Parsed Claims

Page	Type	Claim	Confidence
1	entry_pedigree	Parentage: baccata x Broad Green.	0.98
1	breeder_reference	Released by Dr. W.M. Saunders, Dominion Experimental Farm Service, Ottawa, ON.	0.98
1	release_year_reference	Date: 1911.	0.99
1	fruit_size	Fruit 3-4 cm pale green, well washed with red.	0.95
1	fruit_color	Skin is thick, pale green, well washed and striped with deep red.	0.93
1	flavor_profile	Quality good in one source, but flesh described as acid, astringent, and too sour for eating raw in others.	0.9
1	culinary_use	Used as a rootstock for prairies; jelly; ornamental; fair for canning; excellent for juice and jelly and canned sauce.	0.94
1	growth_habit	Tree strong grower, extra hardy, very vigorous, tall, rounded, and very productive.	0.94
1	entry_hardiness_observation	One of the best and hardiest of the original Saunders hybrids; highly frost resistant; dependably hardy; hardy to Zone 1; resistant to fire blight.	0.95
1	recommendation_context	Recommended by Robert Erskine, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.	0.92
1	description_snippet	Not good as a stembuilder due to tendency to split.	0.9
1	fruit_size	Fruit to 1 4/5 inches; another source gives 3.5 cm (1 1/4-1 1/2 in.) diameter, near round to conic and ribbed.	0.9
1	flavor_profile	Flesh yellowish, juicy, sub-acid, slightly astringent; another source says yellowish, fine, acid and astringent.	0.92
1	storage_duration	Stores for 5 weeks.	0.88
1	description_snippet	Season late September and October; another source says matures in late September.	0.92
1	rootstock_compatibility	Columbia seedlings are vigorous, even, very hardy, and valuable as rootstocks; its only use today is as rootstock.	0.95
1	selection_origin_reference	Originated at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Agriculture Canada, by Dr. Charles Saunders.	0.94
1	anecdote_snippet	Manchester notes that the fruits are highly frost resistant, still worth growing in home gardens, but too sour for eating raw.	0.87

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p1: apple | Malus domestica | baccata hybrid apple | Cultivar profile | Columbia | Dominion Experimental Farm Service | Central Experimental Farm | Agriculture Canada | Saunders hybrid apples from Ottawa | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Prairie Canada | Rocky Mountain House, Alberta,

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Extracted Entities

Type	Value	Confidence
nursery_candidate	Central Experimental Farm	0.58
nursery_candidate	Prairie Orchards	0.58
nursery_candidate	Dominion Experimental Farm	0.58
taxon_keyword	malus	0.65

Extracted Claims

Type	Claim	Confidence
description_snippet	Note: Columbia seedlings are vigorous , even, very hardy and therefore excellent for rootstock, which is its only use today.	0.54
description_snippet	The tree is very vigorous, tall, and rounded, very productive.	0.54
description_snippet	Columbia seedlings are vigorous, even, and valuable as rootstocks.	0.54
description_snippet	Fruit to 1 4/5 inches, conic, ribbed pale green well washed red, some stripes of dark red; flesh yellowish, juicy, sub-acid, slightly astringent; quality fair; season late Septembe	0.54
ornamental_use	Ornamental	0.56
culinary_use	canning, and stores for 5 weeks	0.56
culinary_use	sauce, but too sour for eating raw" Recommended by Robert Erskine, Rocky Mountain	0.56
culinary_use	juice and jelly canned and	0.56
productivity	productive	0.56
ripening_window	matures in late September	0.56
ripening_window	ripening	0.56
fruit_size	3.5 cm	0.58
fruit_size	4cm	0.58
growth_habit	vigorous	0.52
disease_resistance	fire blight	0.58
selection_origin_reference	Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Agriculture Canada, by Dr	0.57
nursery_reference	Central Experimental Farm	0.58
nursery_reference	Prairie Orchards	0.58
nursery_reference	Dominion Experimental Farm	0.58
breeding_cross	Originated at the Central E x perimental Farm	0.65
breeding_cross	Dominion E x perimental Farm Service	0.65
year_reference	1946	0.55
year_reference	1911	0.55
hardiness_zone	Zone 1	0.80