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Hood's Supreme
type: Dessert, Sauce
identification: Large. Conic. The skin colour is greenish yellow over which is a plale red wash covering most of the surface except the most shaded face. Scattered red striping. The eye is open and large, set in a shallow and flat, puckered basin. The stem is long and slender, set in an open and moderately deep cavity. Smooth and somewhat glossy.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse?grained and soft. Very sweet. Does not keep well
uses: Dessert also used for baking and sauces.
origins: Raised from a pip by B.Y. Hood of Duriehill, Angus (Scotland) 1924
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Ready for harvest starting in the first half of the SECOND period. Crops tend to be light.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 12
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