Hunt Russet
- Description
- It is quite attractive for a russet apple, excellent in quality and a good keeper. Tree moderately vigorous and productive, but no longer considered profitable and was not being planted in commercial orchards. Incorrectly identified as Bullock.
- Flesh quality
- rather fine, tender, juicy, subacid, sprightly becoming mild, not sweet as some have stated, very good to best
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, rather tender, russet
- Skin color
- yellow, red
- Sizes
- medium, below medium
- Shape
- uniform, elliptical, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- good keeper
- General quality
- excellent in quality
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- American Golden Russet of New England
- Bullock
- Fay's Russet
- Golden Russet
- Golden Russet of Mass.
- Golden Russet of New England
- Mass. Golden Russet
- New England Russet
- New England Golden Russet
- Russet Pearmain
- Russet Pearmain
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 164.