Shiawassee
- From
- Vernon
- Description
- The original tree was planted as an ungrafted seedling in the orchard of Beebe Truesdell, in Vernon, Shiawassee county, Mich., and came into bearing about 1850.
- Flesh quality
- fine, crisp, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid, aromatic, rather sprightly, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin color
- carmine blushed, carmine striped, red, yellow
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- oblate, uniform, regular, conical, elliptical
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Michigan Beauty
- Shiawasse Beauty
- Shiawasse
- Shiawassee Beauty
- Shiawassie Beauty
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 201.