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John Divers
type: Cooking, Culinary, Sauce
identification: Very large, round, sometimes round-flattened. The base colour is greenish yellow over which is a bright red wash with faint striping on the sun-exposed face. The eye is small and partly open, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is short and medium stout, set in a medium deep and medium wide, lightly russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and somewhat tender. Sharp.
uses: Cooking. Well-suited to making a tart apple sauce.
origins: A cross of Jenkinson's Seedling with pollen from Baumann's Reinette raised in 1905 by nurseryman W.H. Divers of Surbiton, Surrey (U.K.)
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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