Fall-Early Winter.
Seedling of Ribston Pippin. Vassalboro, ME(Kennebec County), 1820. 
A superb fresh eating apple that originated on the farm of Moses Starkey, a Quaker minister in North Vassalboro. Well known around Augusta in the 19th century, but never got much notice outside the immediate area, although it does receive a write-up in Beach's Apples of New York. Its medium-sized roundish fruit is rosy red, covered almost completely with fine lines, shades and stripes of darker reds and sprinkled with pronounced white dots. The fruit is excellent fresh eating, the perfect combination of crisp sweetness and tartness. Best eating about Christmas. Starkey is my favorite to eat until it's gone and I start in on the winter varieties. Moderately bearing tough medium-large tree. Many thanks to Bob Clark for taking me to visit yet another Starkey tree in Vassalboro. Now we know of two!