Sleight
- From
- Dutchess County
- Description
- An apple of the Lady type which originated with Edgar Sleight, Dutchess county, N. Y. Downing describes it as an almost perfect facsimile of Lady except that it is nearly twice as large and ripens a little earlier. We have not seen this variety and have received no report of its being grown outside of the locality of its origin.
- Also known as
- Sleight’s Lady Apple
- Slight’s Lady Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 310.