WaltA wrote:

Alan : if you get to like them then for future ref. there are some
much more errrm 'regular' varieties which you could grow.
Fuseau, for example, is long elliptical (? *) and reasonably smooth.
There is another, that I dont know the name of, which turns up in our
local veg shop from time to time which is reasonably spherical.

I grow all three.

* ovoid ? (What is the name for the solid of revolution of an ellipse
?)

Ellipsoid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsoid

Jiri Borsky