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Merton Worcester
type: Dessert
identification: Medium. Round to oblate. Greenish yellow base colour maturing to golden yellow. Washed deep red on the sun exposed surfaces, sometimes lightly blushed on the shaded side. The eye is small and partly open, set in a shallow, wide and puckered basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a deep and funnel shaped basin which is surrounded by a cinnamon coloured russet.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine grained, crisp. Juicy and sweet with a strawberry flavour. Keeps two months in cold storage.
uses: dessert
origins: London UK 1914 Raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institu Merton, Surrey (UK) during the mid 1900s — Cox s Orange Pippin x Worcester Pearmain, 1914, M. B. Crane, John Innes Institute, Merton, London, England, named, 1947
cultivation: Small, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces heavy crops ready for harvest in the middle of the THIRD period. Does best in dry climates.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to rust and prone to bitter core.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 10. Flowers are tolerant
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