Core wide, regular, closed, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, plump; Flesh white, firm, tough; Juice very sweet and rich at maturity, making excellent cider.
Season, December until March.
Dillingham.
Fig. 53.—DILLINGHAM.
This variety was found in an old orchard of D.C. Richmond, near Sandusky, Ohio. Tree productive, and sufficiently vigorous.
Fruit round-oblate rather than flat, generally regular and of medium size; Surface rough, yellowish-green, and bronzed, or shaded with a purplish tint; Dots numerous russet.
Basin wide, folded; Eye small, closed.
Cavity rather deep, wide, regular, wavy, brown; Stem sometimes long, of medium size, red.
Core small and closed, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, large, brown.