Elgin Pippin
- From
- Alabama
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, good
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, moderately tender
- Skin color
- green-yellow, bronze blushed, yellow
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, conical, elliptical
- Keeping quality
- The commercial limit on the season is October.
- General quality
- A-lthough it has much merit it does not excel other varieties of its season and is not recommended for planting in New York.
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 56.