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Edward VII
type: Culinary, Sauce
synonyms: Edward, King Edward, King Edward VII
summary: A cooking apple. Makes a flavourful, faintly pink apple sauce.
identification: Medium to large size. Round. The skin is bright green, paling to yellow gold as it ripens, blush red on the sun-exposed side. Dry and smooth. The eye is large and partly open, set in a very shallow, lightly ribbed basin. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a medium deep and funnel shaped cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, coarse-grained, firm and somewhat juicy. Sweet-sharp.
origins: It was first documented in 1902 and received the RHS Award of Merit in 1903. Thought to be a cross between Blenheim Orange and Golden Noble . introduced by Barbourne Nurseries, Worcester, 1908 Messrs Rowe, Worcester
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright and compact. spur bearer. Precocious.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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