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Baron Ward
type: Cooking
identification: Small, round to ovate. The skin is smooth and glossy with a deep yellow colour and broken, very pale red stripes on the sun exposed face. The eye is large with long petals and set in a somewhat shallow, narrow basin. The stem i long and slender, set in a deep, funnel shaped cavity which is sometimes russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, crisp and juicy. Sprightly and somewhat astringent.
uses: Cooking. Holds its shape and turns lemon yellow when baked or cooked.
origins: Raised in 1850 by Samuel Bradley on the grounds of Elton Manor in Nottingham (UK) from a seed of Dumelow s Seedling. It was first shown at the May, 1859 meeting of the British Pomological Society.
cultivation: Vigorous
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period. Problems:
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D. Day 12.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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