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Fairie Queen
type: Dessert
summary: A somewhat small spur bearer with aromatic fruit that ripens in mid season, this is a good garden variety.
identification: Medium size, round-flattened, flushed red and russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is coarse-grained. Sweet and aromatic. Tastes faintly like a Cox's Orange Pippin. Prone to cracking around the stem cavity.
origins: Originated with Richard Staward, head gardener at Ware Park Gardens in Hertfordshire (U.K.). First recorded in 1937.
cultivation: Weakly vigorous, upright spreading. Spur bearer
harvest: Mid-season
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
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