Amassia
- Description
- most generally grown in Asia minor on the shores of the Mediterranean.
- Flesh quality
- sweet or nearly sweet, tender, juicy, mild sub-acid
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- smooth, waxy, bright deep blush, whitish dots, stripped
- Skin color
- green, yellow, blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, below medium
- Shape
- round
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- 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), 44.