Duncan
- From
- Farmingdale
- Description
- An apple of the Newtown Spitzenburg class which closely resembles that variety in the appearance and quality of its fruit. When well developed it is rather attractive in color and very good in quality for dessert use.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, fine-grained, tender, crisp, very juicy, agreeable mild subacid mingled with sweet, good to very good
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- not attractive
- Skin color
- carmine striped, green, yellow, white mottled
- Sizes
- small, below medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, symmetrical
- Keeping quality
- excellent
- General quality
- rather attractive
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 113.