Twenty Ounce
- Description
- This is one of the most satisfactory of the fall varieties for commercial planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- coarse, moderately tender, juicy, subacid, good for culinary use, second rate for dessert.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough
- Skin color
- yellow, red blushed, purple-red mottled, red mottled, carmine striped, green, purple-red blushed
- Sizes
- very large
- Shape
- conical, round, ribbed
- Keeping quality
- It keeps well for a fall variety and stands shipping well.
- Uses
- market, table, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
- Also known as
- Aurora
- Cabashaw
- Cayuga Red Streak
- Coleman
- De Vin du Conn.
- Dix-huit Onces
- Eighteen Ounce
- Eighteen Ounce Apple
- Gov. Seward's
- Lima
- Morgan's Favorite
- Twenty Ounce Apple
- Twenty Ounce Pippin
- Wine
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 227.