Ben Davis
- Description
- Origin is unknown, variously credited to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia before the beginning of the nineteenth century.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately coarse, not very crisp, somewhat aromatic, juicy, mildly subacid
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, waxy, bright, smooth, usually glossy, does not show bruises easily
- Skin color
- red mottled, carmine striped, green, yellow
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, oblong, uniform, elliptical, conical
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Baltimore Pippin
- Baltimore Red
- Baltimore Red Streak
- Carolina Red Streak
- Funkhouser
- Kentucky Pippin
- New York Pippin
- Pepin de New-York
- Red Pippin
- Victoria Pippin
- Victoria Red
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 68.