'Saanich' is a new floricane-fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) cultivar from the breeding programme at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre (PARC) of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). This cultivar was selected from a cross of two PARC selections BC-82-5-161 and BC 80-28-50. It produces a very high yield of medium-sized, firm, sweet fruit suited to machine harvesting and that can be individually quick frozen. It is well adapted for processing and fresh markets. It is resistant to the common strain of the North American raspberry aphid, Amphorophora agathonica, a vector of Raspberry mosaic virus complex.

idaeus, fruit breeding, fruit quality, fresh market, yield, disease resistance 'Esquimalt' (Fig. 1) is a new fl oricane-fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) cultivar

‘Cowichan’ (Fig. 1) is a new fl oricane-fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) cultivar from the breeding program at the Pacifi c AgriFood Research Centre (PARC) of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Agassiz, B.C. ‘Cowichan’ produces high yields of large, relatively fi rm fruit suited to machine harvest. It is adapted to both the processing and fresh markets. It appears to escape infection from the pollen-borne raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) and might be resistant or immune. It is resistant to the common strain of the North American aphid vector, Amphorophora agathonica Hottes, of the raspberry mosaic virus (RMV) complex. ‘Cowichan’ is the name of a lake on Vancouver Island and follows the tradition of naming PARC berry cultivars with B.C. First Nations names. ‘Cowichan’ translates as warmed by the sun or warm country.