Doctor
- From
- Pennsylvania
- Description
- Not recommended for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately coarse, crisp, rather tender, juicy, mild subacid, slightly^ aromatic, good to nearly very good
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- smooth, good color
- Skin color
- green mottled, yellow, red blushed, gray mottled
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- angular, symmetrical, oblate
- General quality
- In texture, flavor and general quality, it is inferior to Baldwin.
- Uses
- market, dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Coon
- Coon Red
- Dewit Apple
- De Witt
- Doctor Dewitt
- Newby
- Red Doctor
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 107.