Random Cultivar Of The Day
York Imperial
- Description
- York Imperial is an important apple which is grown commercially in the Middle Atlantic states and over a belt of country extending from these states westward into Missouri and Kansas. Known for its growth in York, Pennsylvania.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, crisp, somewhat breaking, a little coarse, moderately tender, moderately juicy, at first sprightly subacid but becoming mild subacid or nearly sweet, somewhat aromatic, and good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- Tough, bright, and smooth.
- Skin color
- pink-red, red, yellow blushed, green blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium, below medium, small
- Shape
- round, truncate, oblate
- General quality
- Deficient in quality.
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- March
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 385.