
          Characterization: Following notes from 
storage specimens Jan. 7, 1929 (1928
Crop)

Especially well developed and highly colored.
Size large, roundish, slightly conic.
Ground color golden yellow, pretty well
overspread with bright red and
indistinct striping. Dots rather numerous,
yellowish, medium sized, slightly raised.
Much leather cracking about apex and
elsewhere. Sometimes a grayish overspread.
Cavity medium; basin
rather large and deep, sometimes
abrupt.  Calyx lobes medium, usually
separated at base.  reflexed; eye very
large and open.
Flesh tinged yellow, fairly fine grain,
tender, a little lacking in juice,
mild subacid, fairly rich with a
suggestion of its characteristic varietal
flavor though not as pronounced as
in the North.  Not as high quality
as in the North - Good or a little
better.

Pom. No. 56196. Scions of Hubbardston
received 4/13/12 from A. D. Ross.
Sunderland, Mass.
        