Lady Blush
Apple
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Lady Blush
Origin / History
Downing records the variety as "Received from Pennsylvania," and it appears in his The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900). Elliott describes "a Lady or Lady's Blush," a name that differs from the one Downing uses.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Downing describes the fruit as "rather large." Elliott describes it as medium.
Form: Roundish.
Stem: Stalk medium.
Cavity: Cavity deep.
Calyx: Calyx closed.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Whitish yellow, shaded in the sun with bright red. Elliott describes the fruit as yellow with a red blush.
Dots: Many light and gray dots.
Flesh and flavor: Yellowish, rather firm, moderately juicy, pleasant subacid, slightly aromatic. Good. Elliott describes the flesh as dry.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Downing gives the season as November, December.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Lady Blush.
Received from Pennsylvania.
Fruit rather large, roundish, whitish yellow, shaded in the sun with bright red, many light and gray dots. Stalk medium. Cavity deep. Calyx closed. Flesh yellowish, rather firm, moderately juicy, pleasant subacid, slightly aromatic. Good. November, December.
Elliott describes a Lady or Lady's Blush as medium, yellow, with red blush. Flesh dry.