Scarlet Cranberry
- From
- Scott County
- Description
- It is not recommended for planting in New York
- Flesh quality
- firm, rather coarse, moderately crisp, a little tough, moderately juicy, slightly astringent, mild subacid, fair to good
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- rather thick, tough, smooth,
- Skin color
- yellow, striped, mottled, purple-carmine, pink-red striped, gray
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, symmetrical, ovate
- Keeping quality
- It keeps in ordinary storage till late spring and has been held in cold storage till May without scald or decay
- General quality
- This is a southern variety and when grown as far north as New York it does not develop properly either in quality or in size although it often colors pretty well.
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 299.