Cooper Market
- Description
- Attractive in color and form but not of high quality, often some- what deficient in size. Especially esteemed for its keeping qualities and for holding a bright color late in the season. Grown to a limited extent in commercial orchards.
- Flesh quality
- Very firm, a little coarse, moderately tender, juicy, brisk subacid, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Tough, smooth, and glossy.
- Skin color
- green-yellow, red mottled, red striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- medium, above medium, below medium, small, very small
- Shape
- symmetrical, round, conical, ovate
- Keeping quality
- Good, except in colder conditions the apple remains relatively stagnant in quality
- General quality
- Although not of high quality it is fairly good when compared with other very late keeping varieties.
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 100.