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worcester pearmain

Description

Crimson, medium sized fruit. Best picked and eaten fresh from the trees, it can be eaten as early as August in the South of England. Produces huge crops especially when Charles Ross is used as its pollinator. Bears a good crop in most years, unless you forget that it is a tip bearer and prune off your next crop! This beautiful apple is susceptible to scab but resistant to frost and does not mind Lime Sulphur spray. The apple originated in the market garden of Mr Hale at Swan Pool, near Worcester in the 1870's and is probably a seedling from Devonshire Quarrenden.
Latin name: Malus domestica 'Worcester Pearmain'
Type: dessert
Uses: eat fresh
Flavour: good, sweeter
Pollination group: 4
Flowering time: 1 May (start) 3 May (full) 11 May (over)
Picking time: October
Eating/storing time: 1 week
Size: medium
Rootstock:   M106
Year planted: 2006

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