Washington Royal
- Description
- This variety is grown a lot in Geneva, New York.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid becoming nearly sweet, somewhat aromatic, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- Thin, moderately tender, and waxy.
- Skin color
- yellow, green, red blushed, orange blushed
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- irregular, ribbed, oblate
- General quality
- Good.
- Uses
- market, dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- June
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 361.