Black Jersey
- Description
- Thought to be identical to the Black Apple and often confused with other apples with similar names. At times it shows a whitish/light bloom showing through the red on the skin.
- Flesh quality
- A pleasant flavor. It is juicy, crisp, a little coarse, subacid, mildly sweet, aromatic, agreeable in flavor but of low quality.
- Flesh color
- yellow, white
- Skin quality
- Attractive
- Skin color
- black, red, yellow striped
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- round, uniform, irregular, elliptical
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Black Apple
- Black American
- Dodge's Black
- Jersey Black
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 79.