Hubbardston
- From
- Hubbardston
- Description
- Hubbardston is an excellent variety for commercial planting and deserves to be better known among New York fruit growers. It varies remarkably under different conditions of soil and climate not only in vigor of tree but in certain fruit characters also, such as size, color, degree of smoothness or russeting of the skin and in the quality and flavor of the flesh.
- Flesh quality
- firm, breaking, rather fine-grained, tender, moderately crisp, juicy, aromatic, rich, mild subacid mingled with sweet, very good to best.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth but more often roughened with dots
- Skin color
- red, carmine, red mottled, brown, yellow blushed, green blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large, medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, symmetrical, angular, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- excellent
- Uses
- market, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- American Blush
- Hubbardston
- Hubbardston Nonsuch
- Nonpareille de Hubbardston
- Nonsuch
- Sondergleichen von Hubbardston
- Van Vleet
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 161.