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Merton Prolific
type: Dessert
identification: Small and round to round conic. The base colour is green, over which is a red wash and a pattern of thin, darker red stripes. The eye is large and partly open, set in a shallow basin. The stem is medium length and stout, set in a deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is pale cream coloured, firm and tender. Sweet and sprightly, fruity.. Keeps three months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: Raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, Surrey (UK) during the mid 1900s — Northern Greening x Cox s Orange Pippin, 1914, M. B. Crane, John Innes Institute, Merton, London, England, named 1947
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright tree. Produces heavy crops. Ready for harvest in the middle of the FOURTH period.
vulnerabilities: Scab and mildew resistant
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 11
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