Wagener
- Description
- The first published reference to the Wagener which we find is that given in the Report of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society for 1847, in which it is stated that it was awarded second premium as a seedling of merit. Eating season is from October or November to February or later. Named after Abraham Wagener who was known for selling the variety.
- Flesh quality
- Moderately firm, rather fine- grained, crisp, tender, juicy to very juicy, subacid, aromatic, sprightly, very good to best.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Thin, tough, smooth, and glossy.
- Skin color
- red, pink-red striped, white striped, white mottled
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, elliptical
- General quality
- Superior excellence.
- Uses
- market, dessert, culinary
- 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), 354.