Rome
- From
- Lawrence County
- Description
- Originated by H. N. Gillett and brought to the notice of the Ohio Convention of fruit growers in 1848. Produced for commercial purposes in the Midwest. Mostly planted in New York in 1905 in an experimental way.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine-grained to a little coarse, rather crisp, juicy, slightly aromatic, agreeable mild subacid
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red mottled, carmine striped, green
- Sizes
- very large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- good
- General quality
- commonly good but not high in quality
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Belle de Rome
- Faust's Rome Beauty
- Gillett's Seedling
- Phoenix
- Roman Beauty
- Rome Beauty
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 290.