Missing Link
- From
- Clayton
- Description
- A variety of the Willow apple which some think it is similar to.
- Flesh quality
- Flavor changes with time and becomes sweet. Firm, coarse, tough yet crisp, moderately juicy, mild subacid that becomes sweet. It is fair in quality.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- Smooth, glossy.
- Skin color
- green, yellow, mottled, red striped
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, symmetrical, regular, elliptical
- Keeping quality
- A long keeper.
- General quality
- Does not rank high in quality.
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 214.