New Water
- From
- Bucks County
- Description
- A large winter apple, striped red, moderately attractive, of mild flavor and good quality. It does not appear to be superior to standard varieties of its season either for home use or for market and for this reason it is not recommended for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy or very juicy, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, aromatic, good
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- skin thin, tough, smooth, rather glossy
- Skin color
- green, yellow, pink-red, orange-red blushed
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- oblate, elliptical
- Keeping quality
- fair
- General quality
- good
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 226.