Opalescent
- From
- Xenia
- Flesh quality
- rather firm, moderately tender, a little coarse, juicy or moderately juicy, agreeable mild subacid, aromatic, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, rather tough, glossy, takes a brilliant polish
- Skin color
- yellow
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, symmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- It does not appear to be as good a keeper as Baldwin.
- General quality
- When well grown Opalescent is a very attractive apple, being large, shapely, clear yellow, nearly or quite covered with brilliant red, in highly colored specimens becoming deep purplish-reel.
- Uses
- culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- March
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 242.