Gideon Sweet
- Description
- Gideon Sweet is clearly of the Blue Pearmain class
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, crisp, somewhat coarse, juicy, aromatic, mild subacid mingled with sweet eventually becoming sweet, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- tough, nearly smooth at base except where the russet spreads out from the cavity but somewhat rough towards the apex
- Skin color
- purple blushed, yellow, orange-red blushed, carmine striped, green mottled, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, uniform, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- Good
- General quality
- Good
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 137.