Florence
- From
- Benton County
- Description
- The fruit is of the Ben Davis type, strongly resembling Gano.
- Flesh quality
- rather firm, crisp, not very tender, moderately fine-grained, juicy, subacid, aromatic, pleasant
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, smooth
- Skin color
- white-yellow, purple-carmine mottled, red, purple-carmine striped, pink-red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblate, ovate, unequal sides, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- good to very good
- 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), 130.