Swaar

This variety originated with Dutch settlers on the Hudson. Measures twelve inches in circumference; a large, yellow and greenish apple, admired as a winter table fruit. The first recorded apple in New York State, in 1647, was a Swaar apple, which Governor Peter Stuyvesant brought over.
Originated None
Blooms in Winter
Available in 1987
From Esopus
Citations:
  • Charles Scoon Wilson, The Apple in New York State (1905)

    Charles Scoon Wilson, The Apple in New York State (Master's Thesis, Cornell University, 1905)

  • 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)