Sweet Greening
- Description
- Origin unknown but from the statement of Thacher it is probable that it originated in the old Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. It is grown in some localities in Central and Western New York but has not been reported to us from any other portion of this state. It is now seldom or never planted.
- Flesh quality
- firm, breaking or loose-grained, tender, moderately juicy or when over-ripe rather dry, very sweet, good to very good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, tough, smooth, bright
- Skin color
- bronze, red mottled, brown-red blushed, green
- Sizes
- large, medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, uniform, regular, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- good keeper
- General quality
- Where this variety is known it is quite highly esteemed for home use because it is a good keeper and very good in quality for dessert and for baking or other culinary uses.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary, local market
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Curtis Greening
- Illinois Greening
- New Greening
- New Rhode Island Greening
- Sweet Greening
- Sweet Rhode Island Greening
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 331.