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Victory
type: Cooking, Sauce
synonyms: Carpenter. There is a variety which originated in North America that also goes by the name of Minnesota 396 .
identification: Large, rounded. The base colour is greenish yellow, flushed pale orange and marked with red stripes. The calyx is small and closed, set in a rather shallow and narrow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm. Sharp.
uses: Cooking. Makes a sharp, yellow sauce.
origins: Developed in during the early 1900s by George Carpenter, head gardener at West Hall, Byfleet, Surrey (U.K.), from a cross of Bismarck with pollen from Blenheim Orange . Introduced in 1923.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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