Maiden Favorite
- From
- Stuyvesant
- Description
- So far as we have been able to learn it is not cultivated outside of the vicinity of its origin and is no longer propagated.
- Flesh quality
- tender, crisp, very delicate, vinous, sweet, good to very good.
- Skin color
- crimson mottled, yellow, white
- Sizes
- medium, below medium
- General quality
- a desirable amateur variety of delicacy and beauty
- Also known as
- Maiden's Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 141.