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Perkins No. 46

Apple

Origin

Documented under Perkins No. 32.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Form and Size: Medium, roundish oblate, regular, somewhat ribbed and angular.

Surface: Greenish yellow, thinly covered with mixed dark red, indistinctly splashed. Dots gray, minute, numerous, distinct.

Cavity: Green, regular, wide, obtuse. Stem medium.

Basin: Wide, shallow, wrinkled.

Flesh and Flavor: Yellowish white, firm, fine grained, pleasant subacid, good.

Core and Seeds: Core closed; cells round, slit; tube conical; stamens basal. Seeds eleven, plump.

Season

Winter.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Perkins No. 46—Origin, see Perkins No. 32—Fruit medium, roundish oblate, regular, somewhat ribbed and angular; surface greenish yellow, thinly covered with mixed dark red, indistinctly splashed; dots gray, minute, numerous, distinct; cavity green, regular, wide, obtuse; stem medium; basin wide, shallow, wrinkled. Core closed; cells round, slit; tube conical; stamens basal; seeds eleven, plump; flesh yellowish white, firm, fine grained, pleasant subacid, good. Winter.

— N.E. Hansen, A Study of Northwestern Apples (1902)