Cogswell
- Description
- Introduced into cultivation in Connecticut about one hundred years before 1905. Tree hardy and rather vigorous but not reliably productive.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, moderately fine, moderately tender, juicy, mild subacid, slightly aromatic, fair to good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin color
- carmine blushed, carmine striped, red, yellow mottled
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, conical
- General quality
- Cogswell is not equal to standard of varieties of its season in quality and general appearance. Not recommended for planting.
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Coggeswell
- Coggswell
- Cogswell Pearmain
- Cogswell's Pearmain
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 98.