Parson
- From
- Springfield
- Description
- Professor John Craig states* that it resembles the Sweet Winesap but is of much purer quality.
- Flesh quality
- Tender, flaky, fairly juicy, and very sweet
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, oblique, conical
- General quality
- Craig describes the apple as, "one of the best of the class."
- Uses
- local market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Parson's Sweet
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 249.