Tobias Black
- From
- Grand Isle County
- Description
- Originated with Mr. James Tobias in Grand Isle County, Vermont. Practically unknown outside of the Lake Champlain district in 1905.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, breaking, moderately fine-grained, tender, juicy, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, often clouded with scarf-skin toward cavity and marked with scattering flecks of russet
- Skin color
- yellow, green, red, purple-carmine striped
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, oblong, elliptical
- General quality
- fair to nearly good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 341.