Tobias
- From
- Grand Isle County
- Description
- Originated with Mr. James Tobias in Grand Isle, Vermont. Beach notes it is practically unknown outside of the Lake Champlain district. It was received in New York for testing in 1888.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately coarse, crisp, moderately tender, juicy, sprightly subacid
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- moderately tender, smooth, or roughened with russet dots and flecks
- Skin color
- yellow, blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- angular, regular, conical, oblate, round
- General quality
- fair to good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Tobias Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 340.