Lacker
- From
- Lancaster County
- Description
- It keeps rather better than Baldwin but is less attractive in appearance having a rather dull red color as it comes from the tree.
- Flesh quality
- firm, tender, crisp, juicy, mild subacid, agreeably aromatic,
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth,
- Skin color
- crimson striped, red mottled, green, yellow
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, elliptical
- General quality
- good to very good for dessert, less desirable for culinary uses.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Lacquier
- Laquier
- Lecker
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 179.