Brown Sweet
- Description
- Known in Oswego County, New York. Noted as not a rampant grower, bearing heavily in alternate years. The fruit is excellent for baking or boiling.
- Flesh quality
- fine, rather tender becoming tough when shriveled, juicy, very sweet
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, tough, russeted
- Skin color
- yellow, green, red blushed
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- irregular, ribbed, oblong, ovate, conical
- General quality
- good to very good
- Uses
- culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- February
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 87.