Family
- From
- Georgia
- Description
- It has been traced back to W. M. Samuels at Clinton, Kentucky. It originated in Georgia. It is a summer apple and keeps ripening for 6 weeks. In Central Illinois it is in season till September. It is not desirable for for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, crisp, fine-grained, tender, juicy, subacid, pleasant in flavor, and generally good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, red tinged
- Skin quality
- Tough, think, smooth, russeted
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red mottled, purple striped, carmine striped, white, red blushed
- Sizes
- small, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, uniform, symmetrical, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- Keeps through the winter, and is in season extending from October to January.
- Also known as
- McClouds Family
- McLouds Family
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 127.