Tufts
- From
- Cambridge
- Description
- An apple of the Baldwin group, like the Baldwin in form, color, and general appearance. Mild in flavor and less desirable for market or culinary uses.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately coarse, crisp, rather tender, moderately juicy, rather mild subacid
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green
- Skin quality
- moderately thin, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- red mottled, ribbed, green, yellow
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform
- Keeping quality
- In cold storage it may be held through the winter
- General quality
- fair to good
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Tufts Baldwin
- Tufts Seedling
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 226.