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Ontario
type: Cooking, Dessert, Juice
identification: Large to very large, round to round flattened. Skin is smooth, green to greenish yellow and lightly blushed faint purple red on the sun exposed face. Marked with pale lenticels and often has a thin pink bloom.The calyx is small and closed, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is medium thick and medium long, set in a deep and narrow cavity which is usually lightly russetted.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, fine-grained, tender and crisp. Juicy, sprightly and aromatic. Needs to be in storage for a few weeks before the flavours and sugars fully develop. Easily bruised.
uses: A good dessert apple when allowed to fully ripen. Also used slightly under-ripe for juice and cooking.
origins: Developed by Charles Arnold of Paris, Ontario (Canada) by crossing Wagener with pollen from Northern Spy . Introduced 1820. It may be the earliest recorded apple bred Canada.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Precocious. Produces good crops but tends to be biennial. Highly tolerant of late frosts.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
vulnerabilities: Prone to scald. Also prone to mildew in warm and dry locations. Highly resistant to fire blight.
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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