Roxbury
- From
- Roxbury
- Description
- The Roxbury is the most popular russet apple cultivated in New York. When well grown it is of good marketable size, and rather attractive for a russet, but it varies greatly in size and appearance in different localities. Being an excellent keeper it is well liked for southern trade.
- Flesh quality
- somewhat coarse, moderately tender, breaking, juicy, sprightly subacid, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- skin tough or moderately tender, sometimes almost smooth, russet mottled
- Skin color
- bronze blushed, gray mottled, green, yellow-brown russeted
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- angular, elliptical, oblate, conical
- Keeping quality
- excellent
- General quality
- excelent
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Belpre Russet
- Boston Russet
- Marietta Russet
- Putmans Russet
- Putnam Russet
- Roxbury Russet
- Roxbury Russeting
- Rox Russet
- Rox
- Shipper's Russet
- Sylvan Russet
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 294.