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Winter Peach
type: Cooking, Eating
synonyms: Peach, Peach Bloom, Peach of Kentucky
identification: Medium size, round to round flattened, sometimes conic in shape. Slightly ribbed. The skin is smooth with a yellowish base colour sometimes very pale, over which is a red blush on the sun?exposed face. The eye is large and fully open, set in a medium deep, funnel shaped basin. The stem is short to long, stout and set in a large, moderately deep and funnel shaped cavity which is lined with russet. Usually covered with a pale bloom when close to ripe.
characteristics: The flesh is white, sometime pale yellow, somewhat fine grained, tender and breaking. Very juicy, slightly spicy, slightly astringent, brisk and sweet.
uses: Fresh eating apple. Also used for cooking.
origins: before 1853
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Tends to bear the best crops every other year.
cold storage: Keeps three months in cold storage.
harvest: In the latter half of the fourth period. Problems:Resistant to scab but susceptible to canker.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 13.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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