Allison
- From
- Tennessee
- Description
- In 1896, the apple generally grew best in southern latitudes, but was adaptable to New York weather. The Allison is not considered to be an attractive apple.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, fine-grained, slightly crisp, moderately juicy, mild subacid, or nearly sweet
- Flesh color
- green-white
- Skin quality
- Thick and heavily splashed with large and small russet patches and dots.
- Skin color
- green, red blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large, above medium, medium
- Shape
- symmetrical, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate
- Eating season starts in
- February
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Jones Seedling
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 42.