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  • From: Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Hess Apple
  • Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:52:49 -0500

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





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