Munson
- Description
- Origin uncertain. Supposed to have originated in Massachusetts.
- Flesh quality
- tinged with yellow, moderately fine-grained, tender, moderately juicy, sweet, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- characteristically tough separating readily from the tender flesh, smooth
- Skin color
- green-yellow, blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, elliptical, ribbed, oblate
- Uses
- kitchen, table
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- December
- Also known as
- Meachem Sweet
- Munson
- Munson Sweet
- Munson Sweet
- Munson Sweeting
- Northern Sweeting
- Orange Sweet
- Ray Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 146.