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Dyer
type: Dessert
synonyms: Bard Apple, Beard Burden, Beard Burdon, Beard’s Burden, Bullripe, Coe’s Spice, Dyer, Garden Royale, Golden Spice, Harris White Hall, Mygatt’s Bergamot, Mygott’s Bergamot, Penneo’s Favourite, Pinneo’s Favorite, Pinneo’s Favourite, Pomme Royal, Pomme Roye, Pomme Water, Pommewater, Smithfield Spice, Tompkins, White Spice, Woodstock. Also sometimes referred to as Pound Royal, though this is also used by several other apples.
identification: Medium tending to large. Round. The base colour is yellow, often blushed pale orange on the sun exposed face and marked with small russeted lenticels, with reddish lenticels mixed in the the blushed face. The eye is small and partly open, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a deep and somewhat narrow cacity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, fine-grained, crisp and tender. Sweet and slightly sharp, spicy and aromatic. Well flavoured.
origins: Cultivated in France as the Pomme Royal during the 1500s and carried to North America by Huguenot settlers during the late 1600s, either as cuttings or seeds. It was renamed Dyer by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in the mid-1800s.
cultivation: Vigorous. Percocious. Biennial.
harvest: Ripens in the third period and into the fourth.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
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