Rolfe
- From
- Guilford
- Description
- It is rather attractive for a yellowish apple. It is probably grown extensively in Maine. It is regarded highly wherever it is known. Originated in Guilford, Maine in about 1820. It is said to be the seedling of the Blue Pearmain.
- Flesh quality
- Flesh is white with a slight tinge of yellow, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, briskly subacid, good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Skin is moderately thin, rather tough, glossy, clear pale yellow.
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red striped, red blushed, mottled
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, angular
- General quality
- Good quality.
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Macomber
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 187.