Titus Pippin
- From
- Hempstead
- Description
- As of 1905, it was quite commonly cultivated on Long Island but was little known in other portions of the state.
- Flesh quality
- firm, a little coarse, rather crisp, moderately tender, juicy, subacid with pleasant aroma, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- rather tender, smooth, waxy
- Skin color
- red mottled, green, yellow, orange blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblong, oblique, elliptical, conical
- General quality
- Usually a rather high percentage of the crop is of marketable size, but it does not ripen evenly. Some of the fruit becomes very ripe before winter sets in, but as grown at this Station the bulk of the crop keeps well into the winter in ordinary storage.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
- Also known as
- Hang-On
- Timothy
- Timothy Titus Sort
- Titus
- Well Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 338.