Clarke
- From
- Naples
- Description
- It has been grown in a limited way in only some portions of Central New York. It is not very good for commercial variety.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, juicy, rather sprightly subacid. Good to very good in flesh quality.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- Thin, smooth, waxy.
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed, green, mottled, white, orange blushed, crimson blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, unsymmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- It is too tender and hence too easily bruised.
- General quality
- Apple of food taste but it does not keep well; at times starting to deteriorate in flavor and quality by January (which is when the season for this apple should end) even though it can keep till spring at times.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Clarke Beauty
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 35.