American Pippin
- Description
- Another variety of different qualities and description is sometimes also named
- Flesh quality
- hard, rather coarse, moderately juicy, mild subacid
- Flesh color
- yellow, white
- Skin quality
- rough, sometimes with slight russet markings (gray or coarse russet dots)
- Skin color
- green striped, red
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- regular, oblate
- Keeping quality
- high reputation for keeping well, up to a year
- General quality
- scarcely edible, variously rated by pomologists from poor to good in quality
- Also known as
- Grindstone
- Stone
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 45.