Breeding of a new balsam pear variety Minyan 1

Twenty-seven crossed-combinations from high-general self-crossed-systems with longer heredity-distance and different origin had been tested.The combination "120" (Minyan 1) displayed early-middle ripe character.The fruit was long spindle, glossy light green skin, weighed about 300—450g with 26—32cm in length, 5.0—6.5cm in diameter and about 0.8cm in thickness.The fruit meat tasted sweet, fragile and little bitter.The fruit yields ranged from 26000 to 32000kg·hm-2, and was 1.97%, 13.7%, 16.5%higher than that of the local cultivars in Zhangping, Xiapu and Fuqing City demonstrations, respectively.