Lady Sweet
- From
- Newburgh
- Description
- For commercial planting it is one of the best sweet apples. The apple has gained a reputation for itself and is very popular. It is a good variety for home orchards because it bears young, has heavy crops, and the fruit has many uses. It can be grown very far north (up to Lake Ontario) although that changes the season for it from late autumn to late spring. At some locations it is not a hardy apple and is prone to injury and bark bruising, it is also susceptible to scab fungus and requires treatment to keep it from getting diseased. In cold storage it can last till May-June.
- Flesh quality
- Very good to best quality. Firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, juicy, sweet with a specific and pleasant aroma.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Thin, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- red, yellow, red blushed, green, mottled, white striped, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, ribbed, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- Ships, stores, and sells very well.
- General quality
- Excellent quality and it keeps very late.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
- Also known as
- Ladies Sweet
- Ladies Sweeting
- Lady's Sweet
- Lady's Sweeting
- Pommeroy
- Roa Yon
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 184.