Twenty-Ounce Pippin
- Description
- The origin of this variety is uncertain. So far as we can learrr it has always been commonly known to fruit growers and fruit buyers by the name Twenty Ounce Pippin and doubtless will continue to be so known as long as it remains in cultivation. Occasionally it has been grown under the name King.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, coarse, rather tender, rather crisp or breaking, moderately juicy, sprightly subacid with a peculiar but not high flavor, fair or sometimes nearly good in quality.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Rather thick, tough, and smooth.
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, red blushed, red mottled, green
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- ribbed, oblate, regular, globular, elliptical, conical
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 349.