Mother
- From
- Bolton
- Description
- a new, handsome late autumn and early winter apple, of the highest quality
- Flesh quality
- fine, tender, juicy, mild sub acid, very good to best in flavor and quality
- Skin quality
- thin, smooth, golden yellow and deep reed/carmine
- Skin color
- red, yellow
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- oblong, conic, ovate, round
- Keeping quality
- not a good keeper, if kept in cold storage can be held until March or later
- General quality
- very good
- Uses
- desert
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- American Mother
- Gardener's Apple
- Mother Apple
- Mother of America
- Queene Anne
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 143.