Random Cultivar Of The Day
Yellow Newtown
- From
- Elmhurst
- Description
- In pomological literature the name Newtown Pippin has often been used in such a way that it is uncertain whether the writer had in mind the Yellow Newtown or the Green Newtown, and the correct synonymy cannot be accurately determined in all cases. The difference between the Yellow and Green Newtown apples is slight, in that the color is distinct as well as the flavor of the flesh. Beach notes that the Yellow Newtown is more attractive than the Green.
- Flesh quality
- firm, crisp, tender, moderately fine-grained, juicy, less sprightly than the Green Newtown, a more highly aromatic subacid flavor
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, brown-pink blushed, striped, pink blushed, green, pink
- Sizes
- very large, medium
- Shape
- angular, round, oblate
- General quality
- best
- Uses
- dessert, cider, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- February
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 150.