Ontario
- From
- Paris
- Description
- Grown from a combination of Northern Spy and Wagener but noted as inferior to Northern Spy in color and quality.
- Flesh quality
- rather firm, moderately fine or a little coarse, crisp, tender, very juicy, sprightly, rather brisk subacid, aromatic
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth, scarf-skin, often coated with whitish bloom
- Skin color
- yellow, pink-red, carmine striped, brown-red blushed, green, mottled, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, angular, conical
- Keeping quality
- shows considerable variation in different seasons
- General quality
- good to very good
- Uses
- 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), 240.