McLellan
- Description
- Season sometimes last until February or March. It is not recommended for extensive commercial planting but in some cases it may be grown to a limited extent with profit.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, very tender, moderately fine- grained, juicy, moderately crisp, almost sweet, excellent in flavor,
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, waxen
- Skin color
- yellow, red mottled, carmine striped, green, red blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, conical, elliptical
- Keeping quality
- The fruit shows bruises readily and must be handled with extra care.
- General quality
- Excellent. \\'hen properly colored it is well adapted for fancy market and fruit-stand trade but when the color remains greenish, as it often does, the flavor is inferior.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Martin
- McClellan
- McLelan
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 134.