Random Cultivar Of The Day
Dutch Mignonne
- From
- Netherlands
- Description
- Fruit medium or above, not very attractive in color but excellent for cooking, good for dessert and a good keeper. Recommended for home orchard.
- Flesh quality
- firm, nearly fine, crisp, rather tender, juicy, sub-acid, sprightly
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- good
- Skin color
- yellow, orange blushed
- Sizes
- above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- fair
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- January
- 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), 114.