Duke of Devonshire
- From
- England
- Description
- A yellow apple, partly russeted, medium in size, desirable either for dessert or culinary use. It cannot be recommended as superior to other well-known varieties of its class.
- Flesh quality
- juicy, crisp, firm, coarse, subacid, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow, green tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, partly smooth, russet flecked
- Skin color
- bronze blushed, yellow, orange blushed
- Sizes
- small, medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, conical
- General quality
- It cannot be recommended as superior to other well-known varieties of its class.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 111.