Summer Queen
- Description
- Supposed to have originated in the United States.
- Flesh color
- pink tinged, white-yellow
- Skin quality
- firm, aromatic, juicy, subacid, good to very good for culinary use.
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- conical, angular, round
- Uses
- market, kitchen, table
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- September
- Also known as
- Lancaster Queen
- Polecat
- Queen
- Sharpe's Early
- Sweet's Harvest
- Swett's Harvest
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 212.