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Catherine
type: Cooking, Pie, Sauce
summary: A British cooking apple, sweet and the slices hold their shape for pies and tarts.
identification: Large, round to round-flattened. The base colour is yellow, sometimes lightly blushed on the sun-exposed face. Small scattered dark lenticels. The calyx is small to medium-size and set in a shallow and somewhat narrow basin. The stem is medium length, medium thick and set in a relatively shallow and wide, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish. Sweet, mild.
origins: Originates from East Suffolk, UK. Garden of pub in Combs near Stowmarket (now Live and Let Live) before 1900
cultivation: Hardy. Moderately vigorous, upright-spreading, spur-bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the middle of the fifth period.
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 23
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 4
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