Lyscom
- From
- Southborough
- Description
- As of 1905, it was nearly obsolete in New York. Not recommended for planting in New York because it is not superior to other varieties of its season.
- Flesh quality
- rather fine, tender, juicy, subacid becoming very mild subacid, good.
- Skin quality
- thick, tough
- Skin color
- green, yellow, red striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, oblong, conical
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
- Also known as
- Matthew's Stripe
- Osgood's Favourite
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 130.