Sheddan
- From
- Friendsville
- Description
- Originated as a chance seedling with John E. Sheddan, Friendsville, Blount county, Tennessee, about1882. It probably grew from a seed of Green Crank near which the original Sheddan tree stood. So far as we know this variety has not been grown in New York except at this Station.
- Flesh quality
- hard, firm, moderately fine-grained or slightly coarse, crisp, somewhat tender, moderately juicy, mild subacid, good to very good
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, green, red, orange blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, regular, symmetrical, oblate
- Keeping quality
- very good
- General quality
- good
- Uses
- market, kitchen, table
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- May
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 306.