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Polly Prosser
type: Dessert
synonyms: Polly, but note that this is also a synonym for Golden Ball, Polly Eades, Polly Sweet and Polly White Hair. There is also a variety that goes by the name Polly.
identification: Medium tending to large. Round to round conic. The base colour is green over which there is usually a red wash and a pattern of darker stripes which extends faintly onto the shaded, green faces. The eye is meduim size and open, set in a shallow basin. The stem is short to medium, and slender, set in a shallow and medium wide cavity which is lightly russeted. The russeting can sometimes extend over the apple.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse grained, firm. Juicy, sweet, aromatic and rich.
uses: dessert
origins: Kent UK 1946 Cox’s Orange Pippin X Duke of Devonshire — Cox s Orange Pippin x DEnglande of Devonshire, 1946, J H. Cooper, Maidstone, Kent, England nfc: Cox’s Orange Pippin (female) ? Duke of Devonshire (male
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces light crops ready for harvest at th beginning of the second period.
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