Victoria
- Description
- It is recommended for trial in Central and Eastern New York where a variety of this type is desired either for the home or for the local market.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately coarse, very tender, juicy, sweet, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- tough, nearly smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, red blushed, purple-red, red mottled
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- conical, uniform, round, ribbed
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Victoria Sweet
- Victoria Sweeting
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 231.