Pomona
- From
- Slough
- Description
- Originated by Mr. Cox, Colnbrook Lawn near Slough, Bucks, England, who also originated Cox Orange. It is not recommended for commercial planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- not very firm, rather fine, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, sprightly
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thin, rather tender, waxy, smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, green-yellow, carmine striped, carmine mottled, crimson blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large, medium
- Shape
- irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- easily bruised and not a very good keeper
- Uses
- culinary
- Also known as
- Cox's Pomona
- Dean's Codlin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 164.