Gilpin
- From
- Virginia
- Description
- Its color is rather dark red over a clear yellow background. In ordinary cellar storage it usually keeps till June or later and is then acceptable for dessert and very good for certain culinary uses, particularly for boiling.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, rather coarse, at first hard but becoming somewhat crisp and tender as the season advances, moderately juicy, nearly sweet or mild subacid, pleasant, good
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- tough, smooth, rather glossy
- Skin color
- green, yellow, brown-red
- Sizes
- small, medium
- Shape
- round, ovate, truncate, ribbed
- Keeping quality
- acceptable
- General quality
- not high in quality
- Uses
- dessert, cider, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- February
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Carthouse
- Little Red Romanite
- Red Romanite of Ohio
- Romanite of the West
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 143.