Random Cultivar Of The Day
Oakland
- From
- Oakland County
- Description
- It is noted by Beach that this variety probably originated in Oakland County, Michigan, around 1883, brought to the attention of the American Pomological Society by Charles W. Garfield. In 1903 it was grown commercially in Michigan but practically unknown in New York.
- Flesh quality
- very tender, fine-grained, juicy, sweet, crisp
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth, overspread with thin bloom
- Skin color
- red, red mottled, carmine striped, purple, yellow blushed, green blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, angular, conical
- General quality
- good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- February
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 234.