Huntsman
- Description
- Usually a large apple. From the Middle West.
- Flesh quality
- Rather firm, moderately coarse, not very crisp, tender, juicy, mildly subacid wifh a distinct pleasantly aromatic flavor, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Rather thick and somewhat tender.
- Skin color
- orange-red blushed, green, yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, oblate, angular, conical
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Huntsman's Favorite
- Huntsman Favorite
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 165.