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SYNONYMS. Green Siveet (6). GREEN SWEETING (5). Green Sweeting 

 (4). HONEY GREENING (6). Honey Greening (7, 8, n, 12). 



A desirable late keeping apple excellent for either dessert or 

 culinary use. It holds its flavor and remains crisp, brittle and juicy 

 till spring. Often it is kept in common cellar storage till April or 

 May. It is undoubtedly one of the best late keeping sweet apples in 

 cultivation in this state. It is grown with profit for selling in local 

 markets wherever it is well known, but it does not sell so readily in 

 the general market because it is not large and not well known and 

 because the trade demands chiefly red, subacid apples. The tree is 

 a good reliable cropper, bears biennially and yields so abundantly 

 that the fruit commonly averages below medium or rather small, but 

 it is perfect, smooth, bright, regular and uniform in size and shape 

 with little loss from drops and culls. The apples are easily picked 

 because the habit of the tree is upright and rather compact and it 

 usually bears its fruit close to the branches or on short laterals or 

 spurs. Green Sweet may be set more closely in the orchard than 

 either Baldwin or Rhode Island Greening because it does not grow 

 so large as either of these varieties and is decidedly more upright in 

 habit. 



The Sweet Greening of Thacher 1 or Green Sweeting of Kenrick 2 

 is said to be distinct from this variety. 



A fall apple has been introduced from Russia under the name 

 Green Sweet. This will be noticed in the succeeding volume. 



Historical. An old variety of uncertain origin. It was already well known 

 and much cultivated in Northeastern Massachusetts in the first half of the 

 last century (i). It has long been highly esteemed in Central and Western 

 New York (3, 4, 5, 9). 



TREE. 



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Tree medium or sometimes large, vigorous or moderately vigorous ; branches 

 moderately stout ; young branches dark green. Form erect or roundish, rather 

 compact. Tu'igs short, straight, stout; internodes short. Bark very dark 

 brown, mingled with reddish-brown, lightly streaked with scarf-skin ; pubes- 

 cent near tips. Lenticels numerous, medium, oblong, slightly raised, rather 

 conspicuous. Buds large, plump, broad, obtuse, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium or often below medium, sometimes large. Form ovate to 

 roundish inclined to conic, sometimes obscurely ribbed; pretty regular and 



Thacher, 1822: 138. 

 - Kenrick, 1832 : 4 6. 



