Random Cultivar Of The Day
Buckingham
- Description
- Origin is unknown, some say coming from Louisa County, Virginia, and other from North Carolina. Largely grown in southern New Jersey and southward through Virginia and westward through the Ohio valley. Though grown in New York some, it does not develop its best color or quality so far north, being an irregular bearer and often unproductive.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, moderately coarse, rather tender, crisp, juicy with distinct aroma, mild subacid
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough
- Skin color
- carmine blushed, red mottled, carmine striped, green
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate
- General quality
- fair to good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 89.