September (crab)
- From
- Excelsior
- Description
- Crabapple. Originated with Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior, Minn., from seed of Cherry Crab.
- Flesh quality
- medium in grain, moderately tender, juicy, subacid, not astringent but with an agreeable crabapple flavor, good to very good in quality
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tender, smooth
- Skin color
- green, yellow, red striped
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, oblong, conical
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 265.