Nickajack
- From
- Macon County
- Description
- This variety has long been known in various portions of the South and Southwest. Its popularity in those regions is attested by its host of synonyms. It is said to have the habit of reproducing itself so nearly from seed that its seedlings in some cases can hardly be distinguished from the parent.
- Flesh quality
- Very firm, somewhat coarse, rather crisp, moderately tender, juicy,mildlysubacidbecomingnearlysweet,slightlyaromatic. Itranksgood but net high in flavor and quality.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- Thick, tough, rather smooth, and sometimes a little glossy.
- Skin color
- yellow, orange-red mottled, red blushed, orange-red blushed, green
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- oblong, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- Remarkably good.
- General quality
- Excellent.
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Aberdeen
- Accidental
- Alleghany
- Berry
- Big Hill
- Carolina
- Carolina Spice
- Caroline
- Chatham Pippin
- Chaltram Pippin
- Chetan Pippin
- Cheataw
- Dahlonega
- Edwards
- Edward Shantee
- Forsythe's Seedling
- Gowden
- Gowdie
- Graham's Red Warrior
- Howard
- Hubbard
- Jackson Mobbs
- Nickejack
- North Carolina
- Pound
- Red Hazel
- Red Pippin
- Red Warrior
- Rickmans Red
- Ruckman
- Ruckmans Red
- Summerour
- Treanham
- Trenham
- Walb
- Wall
- Wander
- Winter Horse
- Winter Rose
- Wonder
- Worlds Wonder
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 227.