Fall Orange
- Description
- It is not generally regarded as a good commercial variety because its color is yellow, the fruit is rather tender and a poor shipper, and with heavy crops there is apt to be a comparatively large percentage of fruit that is undersized or otherwise unmarketable.
- Flesh quality
- moderately fine, crisp, rather tender, juicy, subacid, aromatic, very good
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin color
- green, yellow, brown blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- conical, round, irregular
- Keeping quality
- It is in season from late Sep- tember to early winter; sometimes a portion of the fruit is kept till spring.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Hogpen
- Holden
- Holden Pippin
- Hoypen
- Jones' Pippin
- Long Island
- Long Island Graft
- N. Y. Bellflower
- Orange
- Red Check
- Speckled
- Westbrook
- White Graft of Wis.
- White Newell
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 60.