APRICOT CULTURE IN HUNGARY – PAST AND PRESENT

Although the apricot has been known from Hungarian historic sources as a significant cultivated species as early as the middle of the fifteenth century, it has become near endemic in this country.
Most characteristic of its growing in Hungary was its companion growing, i.e. since the era of the Turkish occupation (after 1526) the apricot trees have been planted in home gardens and vineyards.
There was the first place of the Hungarian cultivars which descended from Minor and Middle Asian regions.

The tradition of apricot growing is especially significant in the environments of communities such as Kecskemét, Kiskunhalas, Cegléd, Jánoshalma, Izsák and specific urbanic lands as Budapest and Miskolc near Gönc.
There the actual cultivars were selected by Nyujtó et al. as well as the important rootstocks.
The author made an inventory which is the conclusion of the improvement and cultivar handling in the Hungarian apricot culture.

There are various cultivar groups in Hungary such as Kajszi, Rose, Giant, Cardinal, Early ripening, Dawn-Red and Almond-like apricots, moreover there are also some wild apricots with small fruits.
In this paper, there are new data for foreign resources, spontaneous issues and mutants of apricot.

XI International Symposium on Apricot Culture

D. Surányi

apricot production, history of apricot culture

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1999.488.30