Grimes
- From
- West Virginia
- Description
- Commercially limited from December to January. Great for dessert.
- Flesh quality
- Very firm, tender, crisp, moderately coarse, moderately juicy, subacid, rich, aromatic, sprightly, very good to best
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- Tough, somewhat rough
- Skin color
- yellow
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- oblong, round, elliptical
- Keeping quality
- Does not keep well
- General quality
- Good, but niche.
- Uses
- culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Grimes' Golden
- Grimes Golden
- Grimes Golden Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 153.