Orange Sweet
- Description
- Several varieties are described under this name by Downing: one from Ohio, large, greenish-yellow; flesh whitish, tender, sweet, good; season October and November: one from Massachusetts, the fruit medium, oblate, greenish-yellow; the flesh yellowish-white, rather coarse, rich, sweet; season August and September: and one from Maine; fruit medium, roundish ovate bright yellow with blush; flesh yellowish, tender, sweet, rich; season September and October. The name Orange Sweet has also been used as a synonym for both Munson and Golden Sweet.
- Flesh quality
- rather tough, fine-grained, juicy, good
- Skin quality
- orange russeted
- Skin color
- bronze, green-yellow
- Sizes
- large
- Shape
- round, regular
- Also known as
- Orange Russet
- Orange Sweeting
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 154.