HANDLING APPLES FROM TREE TO TABLE (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Handling Apples From Tree to TableThe blush, or red color, of an apple is not a reliable index of maturity. The ground color (underlying green or yellow), however, can be used as an index. The quality of ared apple can be judged ordinarily by the proportion of red to green, the more red, the better the eating quality. As most varieties of apples become mature the ground color changes from a green very much like that of the leaves to a lighter shade and eventually to yellowish. The time to pick most varieties is when the firstsigns of yellowing appear This is not always true with some varieties - Grimes Golden, J onathan, and Yellow Newtown, for example - when grown under certain conditions. The red sp orts of some varieties usually become fully red before they are mature, with no underlying ground color left for observation. As a result, they have frequently been picked too soon and have suffered in popular esteem because they were judged to have poorer quality than the parent variety. Although ground color cannot be used as an index of maturity for red bud sports, the ground color of the parent varieties growing in the same Vicinity can be so used, as their seasons of maturity are ordinarily about the same.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,