Brier (crab)
- From
- Baraboo
- Description
- Hybrid Siberian crabapple. Originated with B. B. Brier, of Baraboo, Wis., as a result of the fertilization of the Siberian crab with the Bailey apple.
- Flesh quality
- rich, fine-grained, moderately juicy, pleasant, sweet, aromatic, not astringent, good in flavor and quality
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin color
- yellow mottled, carmine striped, red, yellow
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- conical, round, ribbed
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Briar Sweet
- Brier's Sweet
- Brier Sweet
- Brier's Sweet Crab
- Van Wyck
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 251.