Priestly
- Description
- It is surpassed by standard varieties of its season and is not recommended for planting.
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather coarse, crisp, juicy, agreeable mild subacid, somewhat aromatic, medium to good in quality
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- tough, smooth
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red blushed, carmine striped, green
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, oblong, symmetrical, regular
- General quality
- it ranks only fair to good in quality
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Priestley’s American
- Red Cathead
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 267.