Swaar
- Description
- In many parts of the state, and particularly in portions of the Hudson valley, Swaar has long been a favorite variety for the hbme orchard, being valued especially for dessert use because of its rich flavor and fine quality. It has been widely disseminated through the state and often a few trees of it are still found in old orchards but it has nowhere been cultivated extensively and is now seldom planted.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately tender, rather fine-grained, juicy, mild or very mild subacid, aromatic, rich, very good to best.
- Flesh color
- yellow
- Skin quality
- medium in thickness, tough, somewhat roughened with dots and flecks of russet,
- Skin color
- bronze blushed, green, yellow
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, oblong, uniform, symmetrical, regular
- General quality
- fine quality
- Uses
- market, dessert
- Also known as
- Der Schwere Appel
- Hardwick
- Swaar Apple
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 326.