Pewaukee
- From
- Pewaukee
- Description
- Eating season is variable, but in Northern and Western New York it is typically consumed between November to April. Originated by George P. Peffer, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, by crossing Oldenburg with Northern Spy. It was first brought to the notice of fruit growers around 1870.
- Flesh quality
- Moderately firm, slightly coarse, rather tender, very juicy, subacid, slightly aromatic, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- Smooth, moderately thin, and rather tough.
- Skin color
- green striped, red
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- ovate, ribbed, oblate, elliptical
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Peewaukee
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 258.