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Rivers Early Peach
type: Dessert
synonyms: Early Peach, Rivers' Peach
identification: Medium size, round conic. Greenish yellow flushed red and marked with light coloured lenticels on the sun exposed face. The eye is large and closed, set in a shallow, ribbed basin. The stem is moderately long and slender, set in a somewhat deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse grained. Dry, sweet and aromatic with a peach flavour.
uses: Dessert
origins: NFC: Raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Introduced in 1893.
cultivation: Vigorous.
cold storage: Does not store well.
harvest: In the middle of the second period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 4
ploidism: Self sterile. Group B Day 4
harvest period: 2
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