Adam's Apples

(Image: Mary Daisy Arnold/USDA )  A vendor at Lexington's farmers market sold me a "Coville" apple back in 2009.  ¶  Now I think the grower got the name wrong.

On the small side of medium, this cheerful yellow variety recalls both Red and Golden Delicious. Coville has the exaggerated ribbed and tapered profile of the former and the color and dark lenticels of the latter, from which it surely must be descended. Some have a small slight blush, rosy orange. At the base a circle of bumps surrounds an open calyx. These bruise easily and have a lush sweet aroma.