Hyde King
- Description
- Known as Chase and Western Beauty incorrectly.
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather coarse, breaking, rather tender, juicy, mild subacid, somewhat aromatic, good but not of high flavor
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth, glossy
- Skin color
- white-yellow, green, red striped
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, globular, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- It is quite attractive for a green apple. Although not high-flavored it is good in quality
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Western Beauty
- Chase
- Hyde's King (of the West)
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 166.