Pumpkin Sweet and Pound Sweet—They are Different
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1967.21.3.42Abstract
We are looking for the real 'Pumpkin Sweet' apple. Beach's Apples of New York, describe 'Pumpkin Sweet' as "Fruit large to very large, marbled with light and dark green and streaked over the base with whitish scarf-skin; well colored specimens eventually become quite yellow and sometimes are faintly bronzed on the exposed cheek". The color plate for 'Pumpkin Sweet' in Beach's book shows a large yellow apple. Now all of the Pound Sweet apples which I have seen are solid green and keep until March in good cellar storage; but Beach reports that 'Pumpkin Sweet' is in season from October to January. However Beach says that 'Pound Sweet' is a synonym of 'Pumpkin Sweet', as are also Lyman's 'Large Yellow', Lyman's 'Pumpkin Sweet', 'Vermont Pumpkin Sweet', 'Vermont Sweet', and 'Yankee' Apple.
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