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Melrose
type: Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie
synonyms: Beaumont, Brychmel. The name Melrose is often used to signify the White Melrose which is a Scottish variety.
identification: Medium to large size, round to round conic with angular faces. Skin base colour is greenish yellow over which is a dark red wash covering most of the apple and darker red broken stripes. Lenticels are light coloured and quite abundant toward the eye. The calyx is very small and closed, set in a deep, puckered basin surrounded by a knobbed crown. The stem is short, slender, set in a deep an narrow cavity. Tends to develop a bloom when ripe.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained, crisp and very firm. Juicy, sweet, slightly tart and aromatic.
uses: Tart when eaten straight from the tree, it is a sweet, delicious dessert apple once it has been allowed to ripen in storage for a few weeks. When used in making pies, the slices hold their shape and flavours. Also used for making juice and cider.
origins: Developed in the 1920s by Freeman S. Howlett at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster, Ohio (U.S.A.) by crossing Jonathan with pollen from Stark Delicious . Final selection was made in 1937 and the apple was introduced in 1944. It was subsequently named the state apple of Ohio.
cultivation: Hardy, moderately vigorous, upright-spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Bears first fruit quite young and, once mature, provides heavy harvests. However, it does have a tendency to produce every other year unless the fruit set is thinned aggressively. Well suited to humid areas. Zone 5 to 9 and does best locations with fertile, well-drained soils, sheltered from the wind.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months.
vulnerabilities: Very susceptible to scab, somewhat to mildew and canker. Somewhat resistant to blight and rust. Large apples tend to develop bitter pit.
harvest: In the latter half of the fifth period, 140 to 160 days after petal fall.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self-sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
flowers: White
hardiness: 5
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