Westfield Seek-no-further
- From
- Westfield
- Description
- In many parts of )Jew York it has not proved reliably productive, but in other regions, particularly in certain localities in the Lake Ontario apple belt, it has been a regular and abundant cropper, developing good color and fine flavor and is still regarded as a good commercial variety.
- Flesh quality
- firm, medium in grain or a little coarse, crisp, tender, breaking, juicy, mild subacid. rich, sometimes a little astringent, peculiarly aromatic, sprightly, very good to best.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- tough, smooth, It is overspread with a thin bloom which gives it a somewhat bluish cast but when polished it is bright and glossy.
- Skin color
- red, yellow, carmine striped, green, pink-red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, ovate, conical
- Keeping quality
- late
- General quality
- Since it is not particularly attractive in color and is used only for dessert purposes it commonly finds but a limited demand in general market and often brings less than the average prices for the leading standard commercial varieties -of its season.
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- Connecticut Seeknofurther
- Marietta Seek-No-Further
- New-England Seeknofurther
- Red Winter Permain
- Russet Seek-No-Further
- Seek-No-Further
- Seeknofurther
- Westfield
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 365.