Salome
- From
- Ottawa
- Description
- In some parts of the state it is regarded with considerable favor as a promising commercial variety because the fruit hangs well to the tree in high winds, is firm, stands handling well and usually keeps pretty well, is smooth and usually free from scab; and because the tree is vigorous, very hardy, healthy, comes into bearing early and is a reliable cropper, yielding moderate to good crops biennially or nearly annually.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, rather tender, juicy, sprightly, subacid, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, pink-red mottled, carmine striped, green, pink-red blushed
- Sizes
- above medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, ovate, elliptical, conical
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- March
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 298.