Random Cultivar Of The Day
White Pearmain
- Description
- This variety has been little grown in New York and is now seldom or never planted here. This is an old favorite dessert apple in portions of the Middle West from Ohio to Kansas. It appears to succeed better in those regions than it does in New York. It is not recommended for planting in this state.
- Flesh quality
- firm, fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, mild subacid, sprightly, very pleasantly aromatic, very good to best.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, smooth, slightly waxen
- Skin color
- green, yellow, brown-red
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, ovate, conical
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- 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), 367.