Birth
- Description
- A Russian apple received in 1888 from Dr. T. H. Hoskins, Newport, Vt., for testing at this Station. Not a valuable apple.
- Flesh quality
- Flesh mild sub- acid, fair quality
- Skin color
- yellow, green, brown-red shaded
- Sizes
- above medium
- Shape
- conical, round, ribbed
- Also known as
- Christ Birth Apple
- Christmas
- No. 161
- No. 477
- 161
- Reschestwenskoe
- Roschdestvenskoe
- Roshdestrenskoe
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 18.