Swenker
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, moderately fine, rather crisp, somewhat tender, juicy, mild subacid with a peculiar but not altogether agreeable aroma
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged, green
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth, somewhat waxy
- Skin color
- carmine striped, green, yellow, red blushed
- General quality
- fair quality
- Eating season starts in
- November
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 335.