Peter
- From
- Excelsior
- Description
- Originated from seed of Wealthy by Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior, Minn,. This fruit resembles its parent Wealthy so closely that it is very difficult to distinguish between the two.
- Flesh quality
- firm, medium-grained, tender, juicy, with a pleasant, mild subacid, somewhat aromatic flavor, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, red tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, moderately tough, nearly smooth
- Skin color
- carmine blushed, red mottled, carmine striped, yellow
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, regular, conical
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 163.