Shannon
- From
- Boonsboro
- Description
- Fruit large, yellow, smooth, pretty uniform, rather attractive appearance and very good in quality; suitable for either home use or market. So far as tested here it is not sufficiently productive to be valuable in this region.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, moderately fine-grained, breaking, tender, juicy to very juicy, sprightly subacid, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- rather thin, tough, smooth, bright
- Skin color
- yellow
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, elliptical, ribbed, oblate
- Uses
- market, kitchen, table
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Shannon Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 306.