Howard Best
- From
- Charles City
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather coarse, tender, very juicy, sprightly subacid, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- rather tough, smooth, waxy
- Skin color
- red mottled, red striped, yellow-green
- Sizes
- very large, large, medium
- Shape
- symetrical, conic, ribbed, oblate
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Howard's Best
- Howard's Best Russian
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 104.