Cox Orange
- From
- Slough
- Description
- Originated in 1830 from the seed of Ribston. Considered to be one of the best in quality of the English dessert apples. Well adapted for growing on dwarf stock, either Paradise or Doucin, according to Beach. He does not recommend it for commercial planting but is a desirable variety for the home orchard.
- Flesh quality
- firm, nearly fine, crisp,tender, very juicy, rich, sprightly subacid or becoming mild subacid, decidedly aromatic
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- rather thin, tough, smooth, attractive
- Skin color
- carmine mottled, red, yellow, orange-red, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, conic, symmetrical, regular, oblique
- General quality
- very good to best
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Cos Orange
- Cox's Orange
- Cox's Orange Pippin
- Orange de Cox
- Reinette Orange de Cox
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 42.