A very small dessert apple, of first-rate quality, it is of roundish shape, brownish-red color; and in use from November till January.—[H. S. C.] n. 200.
499. DERBYSHIRE.
A medium sized culinary apple, of ovate shape, pale yellow, and red color; and in use from November till March.—[H. S. C.] p. 12.
500. DESCIBUS.
A medium sized apple, of oblate shape, yellow color, and inferior quality, ripe in November.—[H. S. C.] p. 12.
501. DETROIT.
- Synonymes.—Red Detroit; Black Detroit; Black Apple; Large Black; Crimson Pippin.
Fruit of medium, or rather large size, roundish, somewhat flattened and pretty regular. Stalk, three fourths of an inch long, planted in a deep cavity. Skin, pretty thick, smooth, and glossy, bright crimson at first, but becoming dark blackish purple at maturity, somewhat dotted and marbled with specks of fawn color on the sunny side. Calyx, closed, set in a rather deep plaited basin. Flesh, white, (sometimes stained with red to the core in exposed specimens,) crisp, juicy, of agreeable sprightly sub-acid flavor. October to February.—[Down. Fr. Amer.] 106.
502. DEVONSHIRE GOLDEN BALL.
It is large and of globular shape, straw-colored, with a flush of unstriped carmine; a very beautiful sauce apple, juicy, with an agreeable acid. It is a very useful apple in January and February. The tree grows well, and bears freely.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] 83. pl. xlii. f. 2.