Lowell
- From
- United States of America
- Description
- The apple ripens in succession over several weeks but is prone to dropping while ripening. The tree is a good grower and reliable cropper biennially and sometimes annually. It is good for home use and for a limited extent it is also good for local market use. It is of American origin.
- Flesh quality
- A little coarse, very juicy, sprightly subacid. It is firm, medium to rather fine grained, crisp, tender, very juicy, sprightly subacid, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green
- Skin quality
- Has a waxy surface. It is thin, tender, smooth.
- Skin color
- green, yellow, mottled
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, irregular, oblong, uniform, unsymmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- Under good conditions it can be kept till winter.
- General quality
- Russeted.
- Uses
- market, home, dessert, culinary use
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Greasy Pippin
- Orange
- Pound Royal
- Queen Anne
- Tallow
- Tallow Apple
- Tallow Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 128.