Collins
- From
- Fayetteville
- Description
- Originated about 1865 near Fayetteville, Arkansas and planted in the Southwest, valued for its productiveness and excellent keeping quality. In 1905 it had not been sufficiently tested in New York.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, rather coarse, crisp, moderately tender, moderately juicy, rather sprightly subacid, slightly aromatic
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, slightly waxy, and partly covered with a faint bloom
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red striped, purple-carmine blushed, striped
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- symmetrical, globular, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- excellent
- General quality
- fair to good
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Champion
- Champion Red
- Collins' Red
- Coss Champion
- Coss's Champion
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 99.