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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

Based on the Downing description:

HESS.

Origin, Lancaster Co., Pa.

Fruit medium, form variable, sometimes roundish, often conical,
red, in stripes of different hues. Flesh greenish white, tender. Good.
December, February.


your apple does not appear to match - the Hess above is a winter apple  
and yours is a summer apple.  Also the pinkish streaks in your apple  
sound distinctive enough that Downing would have mentioned that and  
not just "greenish white".

Scott