Olympia
- From
- Olympia
- Description
- This strain of the Baldwin was discovered growing among some Baldwin trees in a small orchard of Mr. William Shincke, Olympia, Washington. Considered valuable in the Olympia, Washington area.
- Flesh quality
- Firm texture, moderately coarse, crisp, rather tender, juicy to very juicy, agreeably subacid, sprightly, and somewhat aromatic.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- Thick skin, tough, and smooth.
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red striped, red blushed, red mottled, green
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, conical
- General quality
- Like the common-known Baldwin apple, but much more vibrant in color and larger in size.
- Uses
- market, dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 239.