Core regular, wide, somewhat open, meeting and sometimes clasping the eye; Seeds numerous, angular; Flesh rich, yellow, very fine-grained, very tender, juicy; Flavor rich sub-acid and saccharine, aromatic, eminently satisfying; Quality best, for table and kitchen, in December.
Nickajack.
SUMMEROUR—JACKSON RED—BIG HILL—CAROLINA, AND MANY OTHERS.[49]
Fig. 101.—NICKAJACK.
This southern apple, which has extended more widely northward than most of its congeners, is believed to be a native of Macon County, Georgia.
Tree robust, spreading, large, very productive, young shoots stout and red.
The following description is that of a specimen sent by my friend, R. Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, but it corresponds in all important particulars with those of fruits obtained from a dozen different sources in our own latitude:
Fruit large, globular-oblate, regular, not handsome; surface even but not smooth, mostly covered with mixed brick-dust red, striped indistinctly with dark red, some stripes very distinct; dots scattered, yellow.
Basin shallow, regular, even; eye small, closed.