Red and Green Sweet
- Description
- Some find it profitable for local market use but not recommended for general planting.
- Flesh quality
- Fine, very tender, moderately juicy, pleasant sweet flavor.
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- Thin, tender, smooth.
- Skin color
- red, yellow, carmine, red striped, green, pink, ribbed, carmine splashed, yellow blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- conical, oblong, unequal sides
- Keeping quality
- Does not last long after it ripens.
- General quality
- Does not rank high in flavor or quality. It is considered to be of fair to good quality.
- Uses
- baking
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- September
- Also known as
- Large Red Sweeting
- Large Red and Green Sweeting
- Prince's Large Red and Green Sweeting
- Prince's Red and Green Sweet
- Red Bough
- Red and Green Bough
- Red and Green Sweeting
- Saille Sweet
- Virginia Sweet
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 178.