Ferdinand
- From
- Pomaria
- Description
- Ferdinand originated with Mr. Adam Minnick near Pomaria, S. C. It bore its first fruit in 1848.
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather fine, crisp, tender, moderately juicy, aromatic with a rich agreeable flavor similar to that of some russet apples, sprightly becoming mild subacid, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- rather thin, moderately tender, russet
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed, green, orange blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- Ferdinand is excellent in quality and a good keeper, but it is not recommended for commercial planting because at best it is only moderately productive.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- 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), 129.