Melon
- From
- East Bloomfield
- Description
- Can last longer than the harvesting season, but if kept later than January in ordinary storage it soon loses in flavor and quality.
- Flesh quality
- Moderately firm, rather fine-grained, crisp, very tender, juicy, sprightly, somewhat aromatic, pleasantly subacid, very good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Smooth.
- Skin color
- green-yellow, yellow, red striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- elliptical, conical
- General quality
- Melon is one of the best dessert apples of its season, being crisp, tender and delicious
- Uses
- dessert, local market
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Melon Apple
- Melon de Norton
- Melon Norton
- Norton Watermelon
- Norton's Melon
- Watermelon
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 204.