Sops of Wine
- Description
- "A very ancient English culinary and cider apple"
- Flesh quality
- soft, fine, juicy, aromatic, mild, pleasant, subacid, good.
- Flesh color
- yellow, pink
- Skin quality
- moderately thin, moderately tender, slightly roughened
- Skin color
- carmine mottled, red, green-yellow, purple-red, carmine striped, crimson, carmine blushed
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, uniform, conical
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Bell's Early?
- Bell's Favorite
- Bennington
- Dodge's Early Red
- Early Washington
- Hominy
- Horning
- Pie Apple
- Red Shropsavine?
- Rode Wyn Appel
- Sapson
- Sapsonvine
- Shropshirevine
- Sops in Wine
- Strawberry
- Warden's Pie Apple
- Washington
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 203.