Cane Creek Sweet

Apple

Cane Creek Sweet

Origin/History

Originated in Burke County, on Cane Creek, North Carolina.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size: Medium.

Form: Roundish to round.

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx: Not described in source.

Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Pale greenish-yellow with a shade of brown (Downing). Thomas describes the color simply as yellow.

Flesh/Flavor: Flesh white, rather firm, mild, and sweet.

Core/Seeds: Core medium.

Season

July and August (Downing); summer (Thomas).

Uses

Not described in source.

Other

Rated Good (Downing).

Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (Lowther, 1914) carries this variety in a variety-characteristic table only; no prose description is given.

Description absent; variety present in variety-characteristic table.

Cane Creek Sweet.... M  r  y  G  f  S  ............  3*

Book Sources

Described in 3 period pomological works

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Cane Creek Sweet.

Origin, Burke Co., on Cane Creek, N. C.

Fruit medium, roundish, pale greenish-yellow, shade of brown. Flesh white, rather firm, mild, sweet. Core medium. Good. July, August.

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Cane Creek Sweet.... M r y G f S ............ 3*

— Granville Lowther (ed.), Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914)

Cane Creek Sweet. Medium, round, yellow. Summer.

— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)