Long Island Russet (II)
- Description
- This fruit comes from parts of Long Island and from one locality in Michigan, but it also came from the Hudson valley, but by 1905 it was on its way to becoming obsolete.
- Flesh quality
- firm, at first rather crispy or hard, but often becoming tough, moderately fine, sprightly subacid, juicy, very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, more or less covered with golden russet, russet
- Skin color
- yellow, green
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium, below medium, small
- Shape
- cylindrical, round, irregular, oblong, oblique
- General quality
- good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- March
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 195.