Maiden Blush
- Flesh quality
- Flesh white or with slight yellow tinge, fine, moderately crisp, tender, very juicy, subacid, good in quality
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- crimson blushed, yellow
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, conical
- Keeping quality
- Later than December the fruit may appear sound it is deficient in quality. In cold storage its commercial limit appears to be about December 15th. It does not stand heat well before going into storage.
- Uses
- market, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
- Also known as
- Lady Blush
- Red Cheek
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 139.