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Lille
type: Dessert
identification: Small tending to medium. Conic or somewhat oblate. The skin colour at maturity is greenish yellow which is blushed red on the sun exposed face, but not where shaded by a leaf or twig. The eye is medium large and partly open, set in a medium deep and open, puckered basin. The stem is medium length and somewhat stout, set in a deep and open cavity which often has a fleshy swelling off to the side of the stem.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, fine grained and firm. Sweet, brisk and fruity. Keeps four months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: France
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Ready for harvest in the second half of the FOURTH period.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Self sterile. Group E Day 16
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