Type: Dessert, Sauce

Identification: Large. Conic. The skin colour is greenish yellow over which is a plale red wash covering most of the surface except the most shaded face. Scattered red striping. The eye is open and large, set in a shallow and flat, puckered basin. The stem is long and slender, set in an open and moderately deep cavity. Smooth and somewhat glossy.

Characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse?grained and soft. Very sweet. Does not keep well

Uses: Dessert also used for baking and sauces.

Origins: Raised from a pip by B.Y. Hood of Duriehill, Angus (Scotland) 1924

Cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Ready for harvest starting in the first half of the SECOND period. Crops tend to be light.

Pollination Group: D

Pollination Peak: 12

Ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 12