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Summer Golden Pippin
type: Eating
synonyms: Summer Pippin, White Summer Pippin, Summer Golden Pearmain
identification: Medium size or smaller, ovate and flattened at the ends, sometimes conic. The skin is glossy and pale yellow, blushed brownish red on the sun exposed face and marked with russet lenticels. The eye is medium size and partly open, set in a shallow basin. The stem is stout abd somewhat slender, short and set in a deep, russet lined cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm and crisp. Very juicy, sweet?tart with a pronounced fruity flavour.
uses: Eating apple.
origins: England 1800
cultivation: Vigorous, upright tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces good crops
cold storage: Does not keep well.
harvest: In the second half of the second period. Problems:T
notes: Can be grown in pots when grafted to dwarfing root stock.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Self sterile. Group B. Day 7.
harvest period: 2
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