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Forester
type: Cooking, Sauce
identification: Medium, round, The skin base colour is greenish yellow over which is a red?orange blush and some russet on the sun exposed face. The base colour shows through on the shaded face. The eye is small and closed, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse grained, soft, tender and sprightly. Sweet and nutty.
uses: A cooking apple. Makes a richly flavoured, sweet and yellow sauce.
origins: NFC Originated in Herefordshire, England. First described in 1883.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period. Problems:Sel.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Self sterile. Group E. Day 16.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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