Golden White
AppleGolden White
Origin/History
A Russian apple received for testing at this Station from T. H. Hoskins, Newport, Vermont, in 1888.
Tree
Tree rather small, a slow grower with short, stout branches. Form spreading, open. Twigs short, curved, stout, with large terminal buds; internodes short. Bark dull brown mingled with olive-green, coated with gray scarf-skin; heavily pubescent. Lenticels scattering, large, oval or elongated, raised. Buds large, prominent, broad, plump, obtuse, free, much pubescent. Comes into bearing rather young and yields full crops biennially.
Fruit
Size and Form
Fruit medium size. Form oblate inclined to conic, flattened at the base, ribbed.
Stem
Stem small to medium.
Cavity
Cavity small, acuminate, narrow, moderately shallow, russeted.
Calyx and Basin
Calyx open or partly open. Calyx tube large, cone-shape to funnel-form. Basin large, irregular, moderately deep, wrinkled.
Skin
Greenish-yellow nearly overlaid with red and striped with carmine. Dots numerous, large, light. Prevailing effect red or striped red.
Flesh and Flavor
Flesh white with faint salmon tinge, fine-grained, moderately juicy, subacid, fair or sometimes good in quality.
Core and Seeds
Core medium size, somewhat abaxile; cells usually symmetrical, closed or partly open; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish, emarginate, tufted. Seeds above medium, plump, wide, obtuse.
Season
September and October.
Uses
Fair quality; evidently not desirable for planting in New York.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 3 catalogs (1900–1913) from Illinois
- Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900
- Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
- Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913
View original book sources (1)
— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 2 (1905)GOLDEN WHITE.
REFERENCES. 1. Gibb, Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1883:447. 2. Brodie, Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1885:72. 3. Hoskins, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886:221. 4. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1885-7:16. 5. Can. Hort., 13:157, 332. 1890. 6. Beach and Paddock, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 14:252. 1895. 7. Beach, W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1896:50. 8. Buad-Hansen, 1903:91.
SYNONYMS. Bed Solotofskaja (1). GOLDEN WHITE (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). No. 978 (3, 5, 8). No. 979 (8). No. 981 (8).
Fruit of medium size, greenish-yellow, streaked with bright red in the sun, subacid, fair quality; season September. The tree comes into bearing rather young, and yields full crops biennially. Evidently not desirable for planting in New York.
Historical. A Russian apple received for testing at this Station from T. H. Hoskins, Newport, Vt., in 1888.
TREE.
Tree rather small, a slow grower with short, stout branches. Form spreading, open. Twigs short, curved, stout, with large terminal buds; internodes short. Bark dull brown mingled with olive-green, coated with gray scarf-skin; heavily pubescent. Lenticels scattering, large, oval or elongated, raised. Buds large, prominent, broad, plump, obtuse, free, much pubescent.
FRUIT.
Fruit medium size. Form oblate inclined to conic, flattened at the base, ribbed. Stem small to medium. Cavity small, acuminate, narrow, moderately shallow, russeted. Calyx open or partly open. Basin large, irregular, moderately deep, wrinkled. Skin greenish-yellow nearly overlaid with red and striped with carmine. Dots numerous, large, light. Prevailing effect red or striped red. Calyx tube large, cone-shape to funnel-form. Core medium size, somewhat abaxile; cells usually symmetrical, closed or partly open; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish, emarginate, tufted. Seeds above medium, plump, wide, obtuse. Flesh white with faint salmon tinge, fine-grained, moderately juicy, subacid, fair or sometimes good in quality. Season September and October.