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Hodge’s Seedling
type: Cooking, Pie
identification: Large and conic, lightly ribbed with an uneven, ridged crown. The skin is glossy and smooth with a yellow background colour, blushed red marked with broken stripes on the sun exposed face. Russet lenticels. The eye is small and clsosed, set in a medium deep, narrow and ribbed basin. The stem is short and medium thickness, set in a narrow, deep, russeted cavity which often has a small swelling along one side.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, crisp, juicy and sweet?sharp.
uses: Cooking. The slices hold their shape and make a sligthtly sharp pie.
origins: This was sent me from Cornwall, in 187G, by J. Vivian Esq., of Hayle Originated in the West of England. It was known in 1876.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Produces heavy crops annually.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the last half of the second period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 12.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 2
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