Jewett Red
- Description
- Highly esteemed dessert apple in New England, especially in Maine and New Hampshire.
- Flesh quality
- Moderately fine, tender, juicy, pleasantly aromatic, mild subacid or nearly sweet, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- Rather thin, tough, and nearly smooth.
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- medium, above medium, below medium
- Shape
- irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate
- General quality
- It is of the Blue Pearmain type and one of the best of that group in quality.
- Uses
- dessert, local market
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Jewett's Red
- Jewett's Fine Red
- Nodhead
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 170.