Random Cultivar Of The Day
Ridge
- Description
- According to Warder this variety originated in the vicinity of Philadelphia but Downing regarded this as uncertain. Although it has long been known in cultivation it has gained but little recognition in New York state either for home or for commercial orchards.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, somewhat coarse, crisp, moderately tender, juicy, slightly aromatic, mild subacid, good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth, glossy
- Skin color
- pink-red blushed, yellow
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblong, oblique, conical
- Keeping quality
- late keeper
- General quality
- good
- Uses
- dessert, culinary, local market
- Eating season starts in
- February
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 287.