Streaked Pippin
- Description
- Other than the Rhode Island Greening, it is the most grown variety in Long Island. This variety is grown successfully on sandy or gravelly loam and also does well on clay loam.
- Flesh quality
- Good to very good. It is firm,. rather coarse, breaking, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid, slightly aromatic.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Thin, tough, smooth.
- Skin color
- red streaked, yellow
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblong, symmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- Hardy, healthy, long lived, vigorous.
- General quality
- Good to very good.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Also known as
- Hempstead
- Quaker
- Red Pippin
- Skunk
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 321.