_Synonyms_: Frank, Buckley, Sherwood's Favorite, Strawberry, Jackson
Apple, and Smyrna.
Originated in the town of Lebanon, Madison county, New York. It is an
apple pleasant to the taste and much esteemed as a table fruit wherever
grown. Tree is vigorous, spreading. Young wood light reddish brown,
downy. Fruit medium, oblong conic or oblong truncated conic,
indistinctly ribbed. Color whitish, shaded, splashed and mottled with
light and dark crimson over most of the surface; light dots. Stalk
rather short, small. Cavity acute, somewhat uneven. Calyx closed, or
partially open. Segments erect. Basin rather large, abrupt, slightly
corrugated. Flesh white, tender, juicy, peculiar mild subacid. Core
rather large. Very good. September and October.