Middle
- From
- Herkimer
- Description
- The original tree was a chance seedling that grew on Peter Bellinger's land in the village of Herkimer on the fence line dividing the original tracts of land granted by the Crown in 1725. Neither party could claim the tree and thus called it the Middle apple tree. Belongs in the same group as the Green Newtown and White Pippin but considered less attractive than either. Remains practically unknown to fruit growers outside the vicinity of its origin.
- Flesh quality
- breaking, rather fine, crisp, juicy, rather sprightly subacid, somewhat aromatic
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- rather thin, moderately tender, somewhat rough, russeted
- Skin color
- red mottled, green, yellow blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- oblong, uniform, oblique, ovate, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- very good
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Mittle
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 207.