Ornament
- Description
- This is a European variety of uncertain origin.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, fine-grained, tender, moderately juicy, pleasant, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, and good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Rather thin, tough, and smooth.
- Skin color
- yellow, orange-red mottled, red striped, red mottled, green
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, symmetrical, regular, conical
- General quality
- Good in quality but surpassed by other dessert apples of its season.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Ornament de Table
- Ornement de Table
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 243.