Bismarck
- From
- Province of Canterbury
- Description
- Resembles the Alexander Apple in shape. Originated in the Province of Canterbury, New Zealand. Introduced to America from England about 1895.
- Flesh quality
- Moderately firm, coarse, rather tender, juicy, subacid, sprightly, and fair to good or nearly good.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- Rather thick, tough, and smooth.
- Skin color
- green, yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, conical, angular
- Uses
- market, kitchen
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Bismark
- Prince Bismark
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 19.