Payne
- Description
- An attractive apple, valued in the Ozark region because of its excellent keeping qualities. It is somewhat deficient in size, good in quality and nearly sweet. It is duller in color than Ben Davis, but better in flavor and quality. It has not yet been sufficiently tested in New York to indicate its value for this region, but it is probably not well suited to the conditions existing in this state.
- Flesh quality
- a little coarse, moderately juicy to somewhat dry, moderately tender, pleasant in flavor, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth, moderately thick, very tough
- Skin color
- carmine striped, green, yellow
- Sizes
- above medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, elliptical, ribbed, conical
- Keeping quality
- excellent
- General quality
- good
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Payne's Keeper
- Payne Late Keeper
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 250.