Marigold
- From
- New York
- Description
- A good dessert variety of desirable size and rather attractive appearance for a yellowish apple but it does not excel standard varieties of its season in color, size or quality.
- Flesh quality
- coarse, rather tender, juicy, subacid, somewhat aromatic
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- smooth, attractive
- Skin color
- carmine mottled, green, red, orange blushed
- Sizes
- large, below medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, symmetrical, regular, conical
- Keeping quality
- not not excel
- General quality
- good
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Isle of Wight Orange
- Isle of Wight Pippin
- Marigold Pippin
- Marygold
- Orange Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 222.