Smokehouse
- From
- Lampeter
- Description
- Originated with William Gibbons, Lampeter township, Lancaster county, Pa. It took its name from the fact that the original tree grew near his smokehouse. Some fruit growers regard it with favor as a commercial variety on account of its being reliably productive and yielding a very good grade of smooth fruit ; but it is not grown extensively in any part of the state, and, so far as we can learn, its cultivation is not being extended.
- Flesh quality
- rather firm, moderately fine, crisp, moder- ately tender, juicy, mild subacid, delicately aromatic, with an agreeable but not high flavor, good
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth or slightly roughened with capillary russet lines and russet dots
- Skin color
- red, carmine striped, green mottled, carmine mottled, yellow mottled
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, conical
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- English Vandevere
- Gibbons Smokehouse
- Millcreek
- Millcreek Vandevere
- Red Vandevere
- Smoke House
- Vandervere
- Vandevere English
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 312.