Carpentin
- From
- Buffalo
- Description
- A little dessert fruit of about the size of the Lady apple, with red-russet skin and highly aromatic flavor.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, fine, crisp, tender, very juicy, acid until fully ripe when it becomes subacid
- Flesh color
- white, red tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, rather tough
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed, red mottled
- Sizes
- small, very small
- Shape
- round, oblate, symmetrical, regular, conical
- Uses
- dessert, local market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Carnation Apple
- Carpentin Reinette
- Der Carpentin
- Klein Graue Reinette
- Petite-Reinette Gris
- Reinette Carpentin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 96.