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Mary Barnett
type: Cooking
identification: Medium size, round conic. The skin is smooth and green, over which there is a deep red blush and a pattern of darker red stripes on the sun exposed face. The eye is large and closed, set in a deep and narrow basin which is lightly ribbed and surround by a lightly knobbed crown. The stem is very short and somewhat stout, set in a deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, fine grained and crisp. Juicy, sweet?sharp and fruity. Keeps three months in cold storage.
uses: Dual Purpose. Sweetens with cooking.
origins: raised by Mary Barnett Steeple Ashton from a seed planted on her wedding day 1920 Raised in about 1920 by Mrs Mary Jane Barnett at Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England. Lane’s Prince Albert (female) ? Unknown
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Ready for harvest starting in the middle of the FOURTH period
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 13
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