Roman Stem
- From
- Burlington County
- Description
- It is not well suited for commercial purposes because it is yellow, lacks good size, and is not a late keeper. It has been widely disseminated and cultivated in Southern, Central, and Western states but has been superseded by other kinds and it is not grown very much in New York.
- Flesh quality
- The flesh is juicy, aromatic, subacid, and very good in quality.
- Skin quality
- It is yellow. The skin is also rough black mottled
- Skin color
- black mottled, yellow, white, yellow blushed
- Sizes
- small, medium
- Shape
- round
- Keeping quality
- It is not a late keeper.
- Uses
- dessert
- Also known as
- French Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 188.