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Saint Martin's
type: Dessert
synonyms: Rivers' Saint Martins. Sometimes called Saint Martin, but this refers to a cider apple grown in the Normandy region of France (please see Saint Martin ).
identification: Medium size, round tending to conic. The base colour is greenish yellow over which is a maroon wash and heavily marked with raised, light-coloured lenticels.
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, soft. Very sweet and lemony, becoming cloying.
origins: Raised from a seedling during the mid-1800s by nurseryman Thomas Rivers of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire (U.K.). The fruit was shown at the 1896 Royal Horticultural Society where it received an Award of Merit.
cultivation: Vigorous.
cold storage: Up to three months
harvest: In the first half of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
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