Double Rose
- From
- Russia
- Description
- The fruit is beautiful, being almost wholly overspread with a bright deep red but it is too small to be valuable for ordinary market uses and it does not rank high enough in quality to be classed with fruit suitable for fancy trade. It is not recommended for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- moderately coarse, mild subacid, fair to possibly good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- red, yellow
- Sizes
- small
- Shape
- round, conical
- General quality
- very good
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- February
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 110.