Wardington Seedling
type: Dessert
identification: Medium tending to large, round, sometimes slightly conic. Green. The eye is small and tightly closed, set in a shallow and medium wide basin. The stem is short and somewhat stout, set in a shallow and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine?grained, tender, Sweet and mildly aromatic.,
uses: dessert
origins: NFC Raised at Banbury, Oxfordshire by D. Burchnell, gardener to Lady Wardington. First fruited in about 1938. Cox s Orange Pippin seedling.
cultivation: Weak vigour. Spreading
cold storage: Up to two months
harvest: In the middle of the second period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 8
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 2
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