Barringer
- From
- Germantown
- Description
- Variety has been known in the Hudson Valley area like Columbia County, Clermont, and Germantown, propagated by Mr. Jacob Barringer from (Germantown)
- Flesh quality
- Very fine, juicy, mild subacid, and very good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Handsome stripes of red and slightly dotted.
- Skin color
- red, red striped, mottled
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- The season is early winter but it may keep till Spring.
- General quality
- Showy and of excellent quality. Unusually attractive.
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Pride of the Hudson
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 62.