Shirley
- From
- Texas
- Description
- This variety has been propagated by some nurserymen in Texas. In 1892 it was received for testing here from T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas. So far as we know it has not been disseminated among New York fruit growers.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, not tender, crisp, moderately fine, juicy, sprightly, mid subacid, and fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, red tinged
- Skin quality
- Thick, tough, smooth, waxy, and glossy.
- Skin color
- red mottled, yellow, red striped
- Sizes
- small, very small, medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, symmetrical, oblate, conical
- General quality
- This is a bright-colored apple of the Ben Davis type. As grown at this Station it appears to be less valuable than Ben Davis being decidedly inferior to that variety in size and no better in quality.
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 308.