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Newport Cross
type: Dessert
identification: Medium and round tending to conic. The base colour is greenish yellow washed deep read and marked with a pattern of red stripes. The eye is medium size, partly open and set in a shallow, puckered basin. The stem is short, medium thickness and set in a medium deep and funnel shaped cavity which is lined with a pale russeting.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse grained, firm. Juicy and very sweet. Keeps one month.
uses: Dessert
origins: LARS 1920 G. T. Spinks — Devonshire Quarrenden x Cox s Orange Pippin, 1920, G. T. Spinks, Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, England Raised in 1920 at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol by G Spinks.
cultivation: Starting early in the THIRD period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Self sterile. Group B Day 7
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