Origin: Essex UK, 1888
Pollination: Monarch is partially self-fertile and would produce some crop without a pollinator but would benefit considerably from a pollinator. Pollination partners
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Use | Culinary |
Colour | Flushed |
Flavour | Subacid |
Fruit size | Medium |
Picking time | Early Oct |
Season of use | Nov-Jan |
Tree vigour | Vigorous |
Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
Cropping | Heavy |
Disease resistance | Scab - Very resistant |
Suitable for | Late Frost Northern Britain Wet Regions |
Pollination date | 11 |
Pollination group | C |
Self-fertility | Partially self-fertile |
Pollinators | Pollination partners |
Parentage | Dumelow's Seedling Peasgood's Nonsuch |