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Dick's Favourite
type: Cooking, Pie
identification: Large, oblate with slightly angular sides. The base colour is green, washed bright red and marked with darker striping. The eye is medium size and partly open, set in a medium deep and wide basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a medium deep and funnel shaped cavity which is surrounded by russet with rays extending onto the shoulder.
characteristics: The flesh is ???????/ crisp. Acidic.
uses: Cooking. Slices hold their shape, becomes sweeter and lemon yellow when baked in pies and tarts.
origins: Raised by Mr ??????? Carless, foreman at Rowe s Nurseries in Wocester, late 1900s
cultivation: Vigorous.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 14
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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