Barbel
- From
- Russia
- Flesh quality
- tinged with yellow, rather coarse, firm, crisp, moderately juicy, moderately subacid, eventually becoming sweet or nearly so, slightly aromatic, good
- Skin quality
- yellowish dots and russet flecks
- Skin color
- yellow, red
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- symmetrical, ribbed, oblate, conical
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 62.