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McLellan
type: Dessert
synonyms: Lilac
identification: Medium tending to large. Flat round to slightly conic. The skin is green, sometime blush a faint dull red on the sun exposed face. Sometimes marked with a pattern of red stripes. The ey is small and closed, set in a shallow basin which is noticeably and irregularly ribbed. The stem is slender and somewhat short, set in a moderately deep and funnel shaped cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and very tender. Sweet and sprightly, aromatic.. Thin skinned. Keeps three months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: Raised in about 1780 in a seedling orchard at Woodstock, Connecticut, USA.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. precocious. Biennial. Ready for harvest in the middle of the FOURTH period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 10
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