Hog Island Sweet
- From
- New York
- Description
- A beautiful, very sweet apple from Hog Island, near Long Island.
- Flesh quality
- moderately coarse, crisp, tender, juicy, very sweet, somewhat aromatic, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- thick, rather tough, somewhat roughened
- Skin color
- red mottled, yellow, green, russeted
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- conical, uniform, ribbed, oblate
- General quality
- good to very good
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 100.