Random Cultivar Of The Day
Rhode Island Greening
- From
- Rhode Island
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, rich, sprightly subacid, peculiarly flavored, very good in quality.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, tough, smooth, waxy
- Skin color
- brown-red blushed, green, yellow
- Sizes
- very large, large, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- If put in cold storage in good condition the fruit keeps well and goes down gradually but if affected by scald or disease it goes down quickly.
- Uses
- culinary
- Eating season starts in
- October
- 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), 285.