Baxter
- From
- Brockville
- Description
- Attractive in appearance and has a resemblance to the Tompkins King apple. Evidence suggests that it is related to the Blue Pearmain apple group. Said to grow well in the St. Lawerence Valley as it is not prone to scab and is hardy.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, breaking, coarse, tender, juicy, subacid, aromatic. The quality is fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, red blushed
- Skin quality
- Skin is thick, tough, slightly roughened by russet dots.
- Skin color
- purple blushed, red, yellow, red blushed, mottled, purple, white
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, oblong, oblique, conical
- General quality
- Low quality, inferior to other apples of it's season like the McIntosh, Hubbardston, and Tompkins King.
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- January
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 64.