Ten Shillings

Apple

Origin/History

Not described in source.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size and Form: Medium, roundish oblate.

Skin: Greenish yellow, covered with pale brown russet, orange streaked with red in the sun.

Flesh and Flavor: Yellowish white, tender, sweet acid.

Stem, Cavity, Calyx, Basin, Core, and Seeds: Not described in source.

Season

November

Uses

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

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

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Ten Shillings.

Fruit medium, roundish oblate, greenish yellow, covered with pale brown russet orange streaked with red in the sun. Flesh yellowish white, tender, sweet acid. November. (Hogg.)

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