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Chelmsford Wonder
type: Culinary, Sauce
summary: A cooking apple which cooks to a sweet-sharp, honey-coloured sauce.
identification: Large, round and somewhat flattened. Base skin colour is yellow over which is an orange blush and deep pink striping. The calyx is small and closed, set in a medium deep and funnel-shaped basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a deep and narrow cavity which may be russetted.
characteristics: Flesh is pale cream-coloured, fine-grained and firm. Juicy and tart when first picked, becoming sweeter in storage.
origins: Raised by William Saltmarsh, a nurseryman living near Chelmsford, Essex (U.K.) in the 1870s and introduced in 1890.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
harvest: In the first half of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self-sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 5
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