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Apple

USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

Origin/History: Salem, New Jersey.

Tree: Moderately vigorous, upright. Regular and good bearer.

Fruit:

Size: Medium or below
Form: Oblate, inclining to conic
Skin: Yellow, striped and shaded with red
Flesh: White, tender
Flavor: Brisk, sprightly subacid
Quality: Good

Season: Late keeper.

Uses: Prized in the neighborhood of its origin as a late keeper.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Nursery Catalog Sources

Found in 2 catalogs (1901–1913) from Illinois

Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913

View original book sources (1)

Turn off Lane. Winter Strawberry. Origin, Salem, N. J. Tree moderately vigorous, upright, a regular and good bearer. Fruit medium or below, oblate, inclining to conic, yellow, striped and shaded with red. Flesh white, tender, brisk, sprightly subacid. Good. Prized in the neighborhood of its origin as a late keeper.

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

Turn in the Lane Winter Strawberry Winter Strawberry