Tobias Pippin
- Description
- As compared with standard sorts of its season it does not appear to be worthy of general planting.
- Flesh quality
- Moderately firm, a little coarse, moderately crisp, rather tender, juicy, mild subacid becoming sweet, aromatic, and good or some- times very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Rather tender, nearly smooth, and rather glossy.
- Skin color
- white streaked, yellow mottled, white blushed, yellow
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium, below medium, small, very small
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, uniform, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- It comes in season in October and some portion of the crop may be kept till March, but in ordinary storage November is its commercial limit.
- General quality
- Fair to good.
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- March
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 342.