Colvert
- Description
- Origin is uncertain, but in 1905 had long been known and pretty widely disseminated though not grown much in New York. Ripens about the same time as Twenty Ounce but is inferior to that variety in size, color, and quality. It needs to be picked early to prevent loss from dropping.
- Flesh quality
- firm, nearly coarse, crisp, moderately tender, juicy, subacid
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- very thick, rather tough
- Skin color
- green-yellow, carmine blushed, carmine striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, conic
- Keeping quality
- not good
- General quality
- good
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Prussian
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 38.