Random Cultivar Of The Day
Detroit Red
- From
- France
- Flesh quality
- rather coarse, tender, juicy, agreeable mild subacid, very aromatic, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- red, white
- Skin quality
- thick, rather tough
- Skin color
- green-yellow, striped, black, crimson, purple-carmine
- Sizes
- very large, medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, conic
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 60.