Granite Beauty
- Description
- A local variety brought to notice in 1860 by Z. Breed, Weare, N. H. In some portions of New England it is still much esteemed, both for home use and for market, but it is little known in New York.
- Flesh quality
- mild subacid
- Skin color
- red, yellow
- General quality
- Good to very good.
- Uses
- market, kitchen, table
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Aunt Dorcas
- Clothes-yard Apple
- Grandmother's Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 145.