Bentley
- From
- Virginia
- Description
- Comes to bearing when the tree is young. It is second rate in size and quality and not recommended for planting.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, fine, juicy, sweet, crisp, and good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, white
- Skin quality
- Smooth and rather clear. It is not very attractive in color.
- Skin color
- red, brown mottled, carmine, red striped, yellow, red mottled, carmine striped
- Sizes
- large, medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblong, uniform, conical
- Keeping quality
- Keeps very late.
- General quality
- Productive to very productive trees.
- Eating season starts in
- December
- 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), 71.