Lee Sweet
- From
- Geneva
- Description
- Lee Sweet is a handsome deep red apple of good size, acceptable for dessert but especially valuable for market and culinary uses. It is desirable for the home orchard and appears to be worthy of consideration for commercial planting where a sweet apple is desired.
- Flesh quality
- firm, somewhat coarse, not very juicy, sweet, good
- Flesh color
- yellow, white
- Skin quality
- tough, glossy
- Skin color
- yellow, red striped, purple-carmine
- Sizes
- very large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, angular, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- well
- General quality
- acceptable
- Uses
- market, dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- January
- 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), 191.