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Webster
type: Cooking, Culinary, Dessert
identification: Large, round. Greenish yellow washed maroon and marked with fine darker stripes. Scattered raised russet lenticels. The calyx is medium to small and closed, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a deep and narrow basin which is russeted with rays extending onto the shoulder and often onto the face in a network of russet.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, coarse grained and soft., Sharp and fruity.
uses: Dessert and cooking.
origins: A cross of ( Ben Davis x Jonathan ) with ( Ben Davis x Jonathan ) developed in 1912 by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agriculture Research Station in Geneva, New York (U.S.A,) Released in 1938.
cultivation: Weakly vigorous.
harvest: In the last half of the third period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Triploid. Produces no viable pollen for itself nor nearby apple trees.
harvest period: 3
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