Texas
- Description
- Not recommended by Beach for planting in New York. Received from Benjamin Buckman, Farmingdale, Illinois, in 1889, for testing in New York.
- Flesh quality
- firm, crisp, moderately juicy, breaking, mild subacid eventually becoming nearly sweet
- Flesh color
- yellow, red tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- carmine striped, yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, conical
- Keeping quality
- late-keeping
- General quality
- good in quality and flavor
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Pride of Texas
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 337.