Baptist
- From
- Clinton
- Description
- Baptist is not recommended for cultivation in New York. At Geneva, the season starts in January and ends in June, but in Kentucky, the season starts in December and ends in February.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, somewhat coarse, not crisp, moderately tender, not very juicy, mild subacid, eventually becoming nearly sweet, hardly good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- crimson striped, red, red blushed, green, yellow mottled, yellow blushed, green blushed
- Sizes
- medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, uniform, truncate
- Keeping quality
- It holds its color well until very late in the season.
- General quality
- Baptist lacks distinctive character both in appearance and quality.
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 61.