Kalkidon
- From
- Russia
- Description
- It is not recommended for planting in New York because it is inferior to standard varieties of its season.
- Flesh quality
- moderately fine-grained, tender, rather juicy, mild subacid, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow-green tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, rather tough, smooth,
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red mottled, carmine striped, green, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- ribbed, oblate, uniform, regular, conical, ovate
- General quality
- fair to good quality
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Kalkidonskoe
- Kalkidouskoe
- Kalkidovskoe
- Khalkidonskoe
- Khalkidouskoe
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 114.