Florence (crab)
- From
- Excelsior
- Description
- Crabapple. Originated by Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior, Minn.
- Flesh quality
- coarse, crisp, rather tender, juicy, very brisk subacid, somewhat astringent, good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thin, moderately tough, smooth
- Skin color
- pink-red, yellow-white
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- uniform, ribbed, oblate
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- September
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 255.