Stone
- From
- Potsdam
- Description
- Esteemed in St. Lawrence County where it was brought from Bethel, Vermont, about 1836 or 1837 by Mr. Stone. It thus became known locally as the Stone apple. For a time the Stone and the Snow or Fameuse were about the only grafted apples known in that vicinity. During the last sixty years it has been grown in some sections of St. Lawrence county more extensively than any other variety and has there become a standard winter apple for home use. Apparently it is unknown outside of Northern New York.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, a little coarse, rather tender, juicy or moderately juicy, mildly subacid becoming nearly sweet, somewhat aromatic
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, rather smooth, takes a high polish, overspread with bluish bloom and marked with bluish-white scarf-skin
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red mottled, carmine striped, green, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- very large, above medium
- Shape
- round, uniform, regular, ovate, ribbed
- General quality
- good to possibly very good
- Uses
- kitchen, table
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 320.