Pickard Reserve
- From
- Park County
- Description
- So far as we can learn it has not been sufficiently tested in New York to determine its value for this region either for the home or for market purposes but so far as it has been tried it has proved desirable for home use, and it appears worthy of trial for commercial planting where a yellow fruit of this class is desired.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid becoming mild subacid, somewhat aromatic, sprightly, very good
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- smooth or slightly roughened with russet dots
- Skin color
- pink blushed, green, yellow, brown blushed
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, uniform, elliptical
- General quality
- Excellent in aroma and quality.
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Picard
- Picard's Reserve
- Pickard
- Pickard's Reserve
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 260.