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New Bess Pool
type: Dessert
synonyms: Sometimes shortened to Bess Pool, but that name properly refers to the parent of this variety.
identification: Medium size, round sometimes flattened and also tending to conic and angular in shape. The skin base colour is yellow washed entirely with mahogany red on the sun exposed face. The shaded face has short, broken stripes over the base colour. The base is heavily russeted and the lenticels are also russet. The eye is medium to large and open, set in a shallow and medium wide basin.The stem is medium short and medium heavy, set in a deep, funnel shaped and russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, crisp, juicy and sweet, slightly tart. Keeps three months in cold storage.
uses: dessert
origins: HOGG: This is supposed to be a seedling from Bess Pool, originating in Stanton?by?Dale, Derbyshire aroundd 186 . Dr. Bull informs me that it is widely grown in Herefordshi The tree attains a large size, with a spreading habit of gro It blooms late, after all the other sorts are almost over, a bears well. nfc: Raised before 1850 by J. Stevens at Stanton?by?Dale, Yorkshire
cultivation: Vigrorous, upright spreading. Bears good crops.
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