Oldfield (synonyms: Ollville, Oleville, offield, Awrel, Hawfield) - A medium to small tree with wide-angled crotches, often severely broken down with canker. Once of high repute as a variety of good vintage quality, but should only be planted if it is known to do well in the locality. Flowering period: early mid-season. Fruit: Oblate or round, rarely turbinate, 33-45 mm. long, 38-48 mm. diameter. Stem 19-26 mm., slender, often attached to the fruit by a fleshy lip. Stem basin absent. Eye basin wide and shallow. Calyx upright; sepals free; stamens attached some distance below the base of the sepals. Skin green to yellow; russet at both ends; lenticels numerous, of variable size, conspicuous; scab often severe. Core has a filled axial sac or none; carpels large; seeds black. Flesh has a few stone cells around the core. Harvest 3rd to 4th week of October. Milled 3-6 weeks after harvest. Juice sp. gr. 1065; acidity 0.73; tannin 0.15. Produces a medium to high acid, medium tannin perry of average to good quality. -- Luckwill and Pollard, 1963.