Summer Pearmain
- Description
- Supposed to be of American origin.
- Flesh quality
- very fine, tender, almost melting, juicy, aromatic, crisp, mild subacid, best.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- green-yellow, purple-red, red striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- conical, oblong, round, oblate
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- September
- Also known as
- American Pearmain
- American Summer
- American Summer Pearmain
- Early Summer Pearmain
- Summer Pearmain
- Watkins Early
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 211.