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Snell's Glass Apple
type: Culinary
synonyms: Ben Snell, Glass Apple (this is also a synonym for Summer Rose ), Snell's White
identification: Large. Round tending to round-conic. Pale gold skin colour marked with tiny, dark lenticels. The calyx is small and tightly closed, set in a shallow, narrow basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a shallow, narrow cavity which is sometimes russetted.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained and crisp. Juicy, sweet, honeyed.
origins: Raised by market gardener Ben Snell of St. Dominic in Cornwall's Tamar Valley (U.K.) during the early 1900s.
cultivation: Vigorous.
cold storage: Keeps for two months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting in the last half of the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 3
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