Constantine
- Description
- It is of the Aport type and closely resembles the Alexander, some holding that it is rather better in flavor than the Alexander. It begins to ripen a week later, continues longer in season, and the trees may be planted closer together.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, coarse, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth, waxy
- Skin color
- red blushed, green-yellow, carmine striped, mottled, white
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, conic, symmetrical, regular
- Keeping quality
- fair to good
- General quality
- fair to good
- Uses
- market, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- November
- Also known as
- Berry Apple
- Grand Duc Constantin
- Grand Duke Constantine
- No. 457
- Riabinouka
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 39.