Williams
- From
- Roxbury
- Flesh quality
- becoming dry when overripe, pleasant mild subacid, aromatic, good
- Flesh color
- red tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, rather tender, nearly smooth
- Skin color
- carmine striped, red, yellow, red striped
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblong, uniform, conical
- Keeping quality
- It does not stand shipping very well, the skin being thin, tender, and easily bruised, therefore best handled in small packages.
- Uses
- dessert
- Also known as
- Lady's Apple
- Queen
- Williams Early
- Williams Favorite
- Williams Favorite Red
- Williams Favorite
- Williams Favourite Red
- Williams Favourite
- Williams Red
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 242.