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Beauty of Hants
type: Dessert
synonyms: Offine Seedling, Ofine
identification: Large, round conic, sometimes oblong and flattened at the ends. The base colour is yellowish green maturing to pale yellow over which are wide, broken red stripes and patches of russeting. Large russet lenticels. The eye is large and open, set in a wide and somewhat deep, lightly puckered basin which may be russeted. The stem is usually short and thick, set in a medium wide, medium deep cavity which is russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, fine textured, soft and juicy. Aromatic and flavourful like the Blenheim Orange.
uses: Eating apple
origins: Grown from the seed of an open pollinated Blenheim Orange and raised the garden of Mrs. Eyre Crabbe at Basset, Southampton (U.K.) before 1850.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months. Skin becomes greasy.
harvest: Starting late in the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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