Esopus Spitzenburg
- From
- Esopus
- Description
- The Esopus Spitzenburg, commonly known as the Spitzenburg, is the standard of excellence for apples of the Baldwin class, to which it naturally belongs. When well grown it is handsomely colored and unexcelled in flavor and quality
- Flesh quality
- Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, moderately fine, crisp, rather tender, juicy, aromatic, sprightly subacid, very good to best
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, sometimes waxy, handsome, russet mottled
- Skin color
- red, yellow, yellow mottled, purple blushed
- Sizes
- above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblong, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- excellent
- General quality
- excellent
- Uses
- canning, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Aesopus Spitzenburg
- Esopus Spitzemberg
- Esopus Spitzenburgh
- Spitzenburgh
- True Spitzenburgh
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 120.