Virginia Greening
- Description
- It is supposed to have originated in the South, but as of 1905 it was little grown in New York state.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, hard, breaking, coarse, moderately juicy, mild subacid becoming somewhat sweet, fair to good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, green
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth or slightly roughened with russet dots and flecks
- Skin color
- green, brown blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, conical
- Keeping quality
- late keeper
- Eating season starts in
- February
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Green Mountain Pippin
- Ross Greening
- Virginia Pippin?
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 352.