Random Cultivar Of The Day
Lady
- From
- France
- Description
- It has long been recognized in the New York market as one of the most desirable apples for fancy trade at the holiday season.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, fine-grained, crisp, rather tender, juicy, pleasantly aro- matic, and mild subacid becoming nearly sweet.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- Moderately thick, tough, smooth, and glossy.
- Skin color
- red, yellow, white, red blushed
- Sizes
- small, very small
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, symmetrical, conical
- General quality
- Excellent.
- Uses
- market, dessert, decorative
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 180.