Blue Pearmain
- Description
- Blue Pearmain is not very good for commercial purposes.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, rather coarse, moderately juicy, mild subacid, decidedly and agreeably aromatic, good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- a little rough
- Skin color
- red mottled, yellow, purple-carmine striped, purple-carmine blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, uniform, conical
- Keeping quality
- It may keep until March but often begins to shrivel after January.
- General quality
- In some localities it bears well, but more often it is not a reliable cropper.
- Uses
- local market, kitchen, table
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Prolific Beauty
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 80.