Milden
- From
- Alton
- Description
- When well grown Milden is an apple of desirable size, good appearance and pretty good quality. The skin is smooth and glossy and the color is predominantly bright red over an attractive pale yellow or whitish background.
- Flesh quality
- waxy, rather thin, tough
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- waxy, rather thin, tough
- Skin color
- red, yellow, carmine
- Sizes
- very large
- Shape
- regular, ribbed, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- good
- Uses
- culinary, local market
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Milding
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 209.