Wallace Howard
- From
- Dillon
- Description
- Originated from seed by Robert Boatman, Dillon, Walker county, Ga. It is not recommended for planting in New York.
- Flesh quality
- firm, a little coarse, crisp, moderately tender, rather juicy, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, somewhat aromatic, good.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth or roughened with russet dots and flecks
- Skin color
- yellow, carmine striped, orange-red mottled
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- oblong, uniform, round
- General quality
- As grown in the South it has been called a magnificent fruit of best quality and one of the finest apples cultivated in that region.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Boatman's Seedling
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 359.