Fraker
- From
- Garnet
- Description
- Fraker is not recommended for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- moderately coarse, rather crisp, rather tender, juicy, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, slightly aromatic, good
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- orange-red blushed, red mottled, carmine striped, yellow
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- Keeps well into the spring
- General quality
- It does not equal the standard commercial varieties of this region either in general appearance in quality.
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Fraker's Seedling
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 133.