
%0 Journal Article
%A Langridge, DF 
%A Goodman, RD 
%T Pollination of canning peaches cv. Golden Queen
%J Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
%D 1979/08/01
%V 19
%N 99
%P 510-512
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9790510
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EA9790510 
%X The pollination requirements of Golden Queen peaches were studied in an orchard in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria. There was virtually no airborne pollen in the open orchard nor inside a cage placed around a peach tree. Flight activity of bees was related to ambient temperatures and honeybees accounted for 99.4% of insect visitors to the peach flowers. On trees to which bees had access there was a 1.2 times increase in the percentage of flowers that set fruit, but the weight of fruit harvested was not significantly different. Self-fertilization supplemented by honeybee pollination appears to be the normal mode of fruit set in this cultivar. 
