Lankford
- From
- Lankford
- Description
- Lankford is a dull red apple of good size and fairly good quality. It is easily excelled by the standard varieties.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine, crisp, nearly tender, moderately juicy, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, green
- Skin quality
- skin tough, smooth, somewhat waxy, not glossy
- Skin color
- green, yellow, red striped
- Sizes
- medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, oblong, truncate
- Keeping quality
- fairly good
- General quality
- fair
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Langford
- Lankford’s Seedling
- Vickers
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 186.