Left: Sentennial is a new late-season cherry from British Columbia. Right: Sovereign was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s 80th birthday. The perfect cherry variety, from the producer’s point of view, would be well adapted to the location, cheap to produce, high yielding, and self-fertile. The fruit would be large, firm, sweet, and resistant to cracking, pitting, bruising, and diseases. It should ripen either early or late, but not midseason. For 70 years, fruit breeders in British Columbia, Canada, have been trying to develop the ideal cherry for the province’s growers, and the cherry breeding program has released some successful […]