Windsor
- Description
- Beach notes that it had not been grown to any considerable extent in New York, but would probably never find more than very limited demand in New York markets because of its flavor being rather too mild for a culinary apple and it does not excel standard varieties of its season for dessert purposes.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine-grained to somewhat coarse, juicy, somewhat aromatic, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, smooth, somewhat waxy
- Skin color
- carmine striped, green, yellow, red blushed
- Sizes
- medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, conical
- General quality
- good to possibly very good
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Windsor Chief
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 372.