Swazie
- Description
- Supposed to have originated on the Swazie farm near Niagara.
- Flesh quality
- fine-grained, tender, crisp, juicy, highly aromatic, sprightly, rather mild subacid, pleasant, very good to best for dessert.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin color
- green-yellow, yellow, brown russeted
- Sizes
- small, medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, conical
- General quality
- This is a variety of the Pomme Grise group. As compared with Pomme Grise it is more oblong, has more of a golden color, is more highly aromatic and superior in quality
- Uses
- dessert
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- March
- Also known as
- Golden Gray?
- Pomme Grise d'Or
- Swaysie Pomme Grise
- Swayzie
- Swayzie Pomme Grise
- Sivazie Pomme Grise
- Swazie’s Pomme Gris
- Swazy
- Swazy Pomme Gris
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 328.