Ostogate

Apple

Ostogate

Origin / History

Supposed French origin.

Tree

Tree vigorous and productive.

Fruit

Size: Fruit medium.

Form: Roundish oblate.

Stem: Stalk slender.

Cavity: Cavity narrow, deep.

Calyx: Calyx open.

Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Yellow.

Dots: Many gray russet dots.

Flesh and flavor: Flesh whitish yellow, fine, aromatic, sweet subacid.

Core and seeds: Not described in source.

Season

November.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes / Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Source reference given as (An. Pom.).

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

USDA Nomenclature (1905)

From W.H. Ragan, Nomenclature of the Apple, USDA Bulletin No. 56

From Annals of Pomology.

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OSTOGATE.

Supposed French origin. Tree vigorous and productive.

Fruit medium, roundish oblate, yellow, with many gray russet dots. Stalk slender. Cavity narrow, deep. Calyx open. Flesh whitish yellow, fine, aromatic, sweet subacid. November. (An. Pom.)

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

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