Perry Russet
- From
- Berwyn
- Description
- Erroneously refereed to as Golden Russet and Poughkeepsie Russet. This variety evidently belongs in the same group as Peck Pleasant, Rhode Island Greening and Green Newtown.
- Flesh quality
- medium to rather fine-grained, moderately tender or somewhat tough, juicy, with an agreeable subacid russet flavor, sprightly, aromatic, good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, nearly smooth or roughened more or less with russet,
- Skin color
- brown-red blushed, bronze blushed, yellow
- Sizes
- very large, large, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, conical
- General quality
- The fruit is of good size, pretty uniform and fairly attractive in appearance for a yellowish apple.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Golden Russet
- Pineapple
- Pineapple Russet
- Poughkeepsie Russet
- Rhode Island Russet
- Winter Russet
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 257.