_Synonyms_: Millcreek Vandevere, Red Vandevere, English Vandevere.
Origin, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, near Millcreek, grown on the
farm of ---- Gibbons, near his smokehouse; hence its name. An old
variety, and popular in Pennsylvania. It somewhat resembles the old
Pennsylvania Vandevere, and is supposed to be a seedling of it. Tree
moderately vigorous, with a spreading head, a good bearer. Young wood
dark, dull reddish brown. Fruit rather above medium, roundish oblate,
skin yellow, shaded and splashed with crimson, and thickly sprinkled
with large gray and brown dots. Stalk rather long, curved, inserted in a
broad cavity. Calyx closed, set in a wide basin of moderate depth,
slightly corrugated. Flesh yellowish, somewhat firm, juicy, crisp,
rather rich subacid. Good. September to February. Valued for culinary
uses.