Pennock
- Description
- It is not recommended for planting in New York. It is said to have been first cultivated by Joseph Pennock, of Springfield township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania.
- Flesh quality
- somewhat coarse, rather crisp, tender, rather juicy, subacid to mild subacid or nearly sweet; flavor lacking in character; quality fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- rather thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- carmine, red striped, green mottled, yellow mottled, green blushed, yellow blushed
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, oblong, uniform, regular, oblique, elliptical, conical
- General quality
- Generally speaking it is not regarded with favor as a commercial variety because the fruit ranks but second or third rate in quality
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Big Romanite
- Gay's Romanite
- Large Romanite
- Neisley's Winter
- Neisley's Winter Penick
- Pelican
- Penick
- Pennick
- Pennock
- Pennock’s Red Winter
- Pomme Roye
- Prolific Beauty
- Red Pennock
- Romanite
- Roman Knight
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 255.