Description

• Harvest: Early
• Description: Heart shaped fruit with a small stone
• Skin: Purple to black
• Flesh: Dark purple
• Pollination: Lapins
• Flowering Group: 1
• Taste: Soft, melting, very juicy and sweet. Good flavour and quality when allowed to ripen fully
• Uses: Eating
• Background: Originated from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, UK 1872, grown from a seedling of Early Purple Gean by Thomas River. This is a chance seedling raised by a Mr River in 1867. It was awarded a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society when it was first introduced in 1872