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Prince Alfred
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size, intermediate conic, often with angular faces. The base colour is yellow washed pink and marked with prominent red stripes on the sun exposed surfaces. The eye is small and partly open, set in a somewhat deep basin and surrounded by a knobbed crown. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a medium depth, open cavity which is lightly russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is ???????????, coarse grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and sweet with a hint of strawberry.
uses: Dessert
origins: UK
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Three months.
harvest: Early in the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 8
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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