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Pope's Scarlet Costard

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Pope's Scarlet Costard

Origin/History Origin unrecorded.

Tree Vigorous growth; moderate fertility. Leaves roundish, flat, undulating, shallow serrate.

Fruit

  • Size: Medium, 2½ by 2½
  • Form: Conical, fairly regular
  • Skin: Pale yellow, almost covered with dark brownish crimson
  • Stem: Short
  • Cavity: Small, very russet
  • Basin: Shallow, ribbed, much knobbed at top
  • Calyx: Closed
  • Flesh: Crisp, juicy, greenish
  • Flavor: Pleasantly flavoured
  • Core/Seeds: Not described in source

Season Till March

Uses Culinary or dessert

Other Bunyard notes: "Not worthy of cultivation."

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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POPE'S SCARLET COSTARD. Culinary or dessert, till March, medium, 2½ by 2½, conical, fairly regular. Colour, pale yellow, almost covered with dark brownish crimson. Flesh, crisp, juicy, greenish, pleasantly flavoured. Eye, closed, in a shallow ribbed basin, much knobbed at top. Stem, short in a small very russet cavity. Growth, vigorous; fertility, moderate. Leaf, roundish, flat, undulating, shallow serrate. Origin, unrecorded. Not worthy of cultivation.

— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)