Random Cultivar Of The Day
Wabash Red
- Description
- As grown at the Geneva Station, this variety is a rather attractive apple of fairly good size but shows a tendency to be deficient in size. This is distinct from Wabash or Wabash Bellflower.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, a little coarse, crisp, not tender, moderately juicy, mild subacid, pleasant, sprightly
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, tough, nearly smooth
- Skin color
- red-orange, red, yellow, red striped
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, uniform, regular, conical
- General quality
- good
- Eating season starts in
- December
- 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), 353.