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Ashdown Seedling
type: Dessert
summary: A seedling of the McIntosh, this apple ripens early and comes with juicy, sweet, strawberry flavours.
identification: Medium tending to large. Round and slightly conic. The base colour is yellow, blushed red on more than half the apple. The calyx is medium size and partly open, set in a shallow and wide basin. The stem is short and medium stout, set in a deep, funnel-shaped cavity which is russetted with rays running onto and over the shoulder.
characteristics: Soft. Sweet with a faint strawberry flavour.
origins: A seedling of McIntosh grown by John Clarke in Sussex (U.K.) in the 1930s.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
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