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Starr
type: Cooking
synonyms: Star in the East, Star, Early Greening
identification: Large to very large. Round to oblate and angular. The skin is green maturing to yellow with a faint blush on the sun exposed face. The eye is small to medium and partly open with long petals, surrounded by a distingctly knobbed crown. The stem is short and medium thickness, set in a medium deep and medium wide cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp and very tender. Very juicy, tart and aromatic.
uses: The Starr was often picked in mid summer well before ripeness and called Early Greening used for cooking.
origins: Found as a chance seedling on the John Starr s farm near Woodburg, New Jersey (USA) in the late 1700s. Since it produced enormous apples at a time when the market clamoured for larger apples, it quickly became widely popula throughout the mid?Atlantic states. Nursery catalogues trumpeted the Starr as the largest apple known, measuring 1 to 12 inches in circumference. NFC Found on the property of Judge White, Woodbury, New Jersey, USA. Propagated by William Parry in 1865.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. starts to bear when quite young and crops well annually.
cold storage: Keeps ups to two months.
cold storage weeks: 8
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