Missouri Pippin
- From
- Kingsville
- Description
- This is one of the well-known market apples of the Middle West. In common storage the apple can last from October to January; in cold storage January to April.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, medium to rather fine-grained, not very tender, not very juicy, briskly subacid, fair to good in quality.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Thick, tough, smooth, and rather glossy with a grey bloom.
- Skin color
- green, yellow, gray
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- round, conical
- Keeping quality
- Good.
- General quality
- Second-rate quality.
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Missouri
- Missouri Keeper
- Missouri Orange
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 215.