Jonathan
- From
- Woodstock
- Description
- This is a fruit of the Esopus Spitzenburg class. It is very beautiful, of a brilliant red color, highly flavored and of excellent quality for either dessert or culinary use. It excels its parent in hardiness, productiveness, health and vigor and is adapted to a wider range of territory, but the fruit is not so large nor does it keep as well as that of Esopus Spitzenbnrg.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, juicy, very aromatic, sprightly subacid, very good to best.
- Flesh color
- yellow, white
- Skin quality
- beautiful
- Skin color
- carmine striped, red, yellow
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- round, uniform, truncate, regular, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- excellent
- General quality
- excellent
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Esopus Spitzenberg (New)
- King Philip
- Philip Rick
- Ulster Seedling
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 172.