Pease
- From
- Somers
- Description
- Originated in the seedling orchard of Walter Pease, Somers, Conn., in the early part of the 1800s. It is worthy of the attention of New York fruit growers where a dessert apple of Ihis type is desired.
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather fine, crisp, tender, juicy, aromatic, sprightly, mild pleasant subacid
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth, somewhat glossy
- Skin color
- yellow, carmine striped, green, red
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, oblong, conical
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Pease, Walter
- Walter Pease
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 161.