A generous reader sent me today's Antonovka, along with some very fine Jonareds ( sports of Jonathon ) from his garden orchard. Thank you, Mark. My squat, painterly Antonovka runs a mini rainbow from spring green to a faint peach, the latter a blush spread thinly over a peel that is largely yellow. The small lenticels are hard to see except where filled with dark russet, and there is an odd glassy region on the side opposite the blush. Am I seeing watercore from the outside?
An amateur explores the pomaceous fruit