Walker Beauty
- From
- Allegheny County
- Description
- Reported to have originated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, but Beach was unable to verify that statement. It corresponds closely with the Walker Yellow, a native of Pulaski County, Georgia. In 1905 it had been disseminated but little in New York.
- Flesh quality
- firm or very firm, moderately coarse, crisp, tender, juicy, very brisk subacid, too acid for dessert
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- carmine striped, yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, oblong, elliptical, conical
- General quality
- good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Walker's Beauty
- Walker
- Walker Yellow
- Walker's Winter
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 358.