Sutton
- From
- Sutton
- Description
- Brought to notice through the Worcester County Horticultural Society in 1848. Included in the American Pomological Society Catalogue after 1877. Beach notes that it was practically unknown in New York until recent years in 1905. Supposed by some to be a seedling of Hubbardston. Incorrectly sometimes called Hubbardston Nonsuch or Steele's Red erroneously.
- Flesh quality
- rather firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, mild subacid
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thin, tough, often slightly roughened toward the basin with broken russet lines and fine russet dots
- Skin color
- yellow, carmine, red striped, green, purple-carmine
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, regular
- General quality
- good to very good
- Uses
- market, local market
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Beauty
- Hubbardston Nonsuch
- Morris Red
- Steele's Red
- Steele's Red Winter
- Sutton Beauty
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 324.