Stark
- From
- Ohio
- Description
- The illustration shows a highly colored Stark grown in Dutchess County. Offered by nurseries across the country by 1892 with some exceptions. Not largely planted in New York but in 1905 was appearing to slowly increase.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine to rather coarse, breaking, rather tender, juicy, sprightly, mild subacid, not high in flavor
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- smooth or slightly roughened with russet dots
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, red blushed, red mottled, green
- Sizes
- very large, large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, uniform, ovate, conical
- General quality
- fair to good or nearly good
- Uses
- market, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Robinson
- Starke Apple
- Yeats
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 316.