Moore Sweet
- Description
- Originated with J. B. Moore, Concord, Massachusetts. Seldom planted in New York as of 1905.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, moderately fine-grained, tender, rather dry, sweet, good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth or nearly so
- Skin color
- green, yellow, red blushed, pink-red blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- excellent keeper
- General quality
- good
- Uses
- culinary
- Also known as
- Black Sweet
- Josie Moore
- Kelley's Sweet
- Moore's Late Sweet
- Moore's Shanty
- Moore's Sweet
- Moore's Sweeting
- Moor's Sweeting
- Red Sweet Pippin
- Red Winter Sweet of some
- Sweet Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 219.