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La Nationale
type: Dessert
synonyms: Bernardin, Bourget, Cusset Rouge
identification: Large and round. The skin colour is green over which is a bright red wash marked with fine bright red striping on the sun exposed face. The eye is large and partly open, set in a shallow basin. The stime is short and moderately stout, set in a deep and narrow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm. Sweet, aromatic and fruity. Keeps three months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: Raised by M. Roux at Sainte?Romain?au?Mont d’Or, Rhone, France. It first fruited in 1871
cultivation: Vigorous. Ready for harvest in the last half of the FOURTH period.
pollination group: G
pollination peak: 27
ploidism: Self sterile. Group G Day 27
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