Cat-head

Also known as
  • Cathead Greening
  • Green Costard
This large apple is flattened at its deeply hollowed ends. It is noted as "a good apple for cooking and drying, but apt to drop from the trees" because it is heavy.
Originated None
Blooms in Winter
Not available in 1987
From England
Citations:
  • James Thacher, The American Orchardist (1822)

    James Thacher, The American Orchardist; or, a Practical Treatise on the Culture and Management of Apple and Other Fruit Trees… (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822)

  • Martin McGann, "Apple Cultivars in the Lower Hudson Valley Prior to 1860" (1987)

    Martin McGann, "Apple Cultivars of the Lower Hudson Valley Prior to 1860," Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Inc., Tarrytown, NY (February 1987)