Danvers Sweet
- From
- Danvers
- Description
- Tree is a proficient grower and producer. Fruit is of good marketable size. No longer recommended for planting. Nearly obsolete in New York and originates in Danvers, Mass. with the original tree standing in 1832.
- Flesh quality
- Good to very good. The flesh is breaking, moderately fine, very tender and sweet, rather juicy.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green
- Skin quality
- moderately thin, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- bronze blushed, green, mottled, yellow blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- uniform, round, oblate, conical
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Danvers Sweet
- Danvers Winter
- Danvers Winter Sweet
- Eppes' Sweet
- Epse's Sweet
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 103.