Fishkill
- From
- Fishkill
- Flesh quality
- firm, coarse, moderately crisp, moderately tender, juicy, mild subacid, fair to good in flavor and quality.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- a little rough, thick, tough
- Skin color
- brown-red, red striped, red blushed, yellow, red mottled, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, regular, conical
- General quality
- Fruit large, rather attractive in appearance, but not good enough in quaUty to displace standard sorts of its season either for culinary or dessert uses.
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Fishkill Beauty
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 70.