Campfield
- From
- New Jersey
- Description
- Recommended for Cider usage. It is a biennial bearer and apt to overbearing which causes the fruit to be small at times. It is not in high demand so it is becoming fast obsolete. It is named after the Campfield family originated in Eastern New Jersey.
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather dry, tender, moderately fine, not crisp, decidedly sweet, good
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- red striped, yellow, mottled, red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- good keeper
- General quality
- poor
- Uses
- stock feed, kitchen
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- July
- Also known as
- Canfield
- Newark Sweeting
- Sweet Maiden's Blush
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 91.