Romna
- From
- Newport
- Description
- A Russin Variety from Newport, Vermont in 1888. It is a fall and early winter apple. It is not profitable for fruit growers in New York except when hardiness is a requisite for apples.
- Flesh quality
- The flesh is yellowish, firm, moderately coarse, juicy, briskly subacid, slightly astringent, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- The skin is thick, tough, smooth, or partly roughened with flecks of russet
- Skin color
- green, yellow, blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- irregular, unequal sides, oblate, uniform, unsymmetrical, conical, angular, elliptical, ununiform
- Keeping quality
- Storage of this apple can extend from September to January.
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- No. II M
- No. 599 Dept.
- Omensk
- Romenskoe
- Romnenskoe
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 189.