Hiester
- From
- Reading
- Description
- Winter apple in New York, but where it originated it is classed as a late fall and early winter variety. Tree vigorous and productive. It is considered a desirable apple in some parts of Pennsylvania. Not recommended for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- crisp, moderately juicy, rather tender, mild subacid to somewhat sweet, fair to good in flavor and quality
- Flesh color
- yellow-white
- Skin color
- carmine striped, red, yellow mottled, red striped
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Baer
- Heaster
- Heister
- Michel Miller
- Miller
- Stehly
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 158.