Golden Seedling
Apple
Golden Seedling
Origin/History
Warder (1867) records that the Golden Seedling is said to have originated with Mr. Riehl of St. Louis, and was cultivated and distributed by Geo. Husmann of Hermann, Missouri, in whose orchard Warder gathered the fruit. Downing (1900) gives the origin more broadly as "supposed origin, Missouri."
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size and Form: Large. Warder describes the fruit as regular and oblate; Downing describes it as roundish oblate.
Stem: Short (Warder).
Cavity: Wide, wavy (Warder).
Calyx: Medium, closed (Warder).
Basin: Wide, regular (Warder).
Skin: Smooth, greenish-yellow, blushed (Warder). Downing concurs: greenish yellow with a blush in the sun.
Dots: Scattered, minute (Warder).
Flesh and Flavor: Flesh yellow (Warder) / yellowish (Downing), juicy. Warder describes it as rich, rated "Very good." Downing characterizes the flavor as sharp subacid.
Core and Seeds: Core medium, regular, meeting the eye, closed. Seeds numerous, angular, pale (Warder).
Season
February to May (Downing).
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
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— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)Golden Seedling.
Said to have originated with Mr. Riehl, of St. Louis, cultivated and distributed by Geo. Husmann, of Hermann, Mo., in whose orchard I gathered it.
Fruit large, handsome, regular, and oblate; Surface smooth, greenish-yellow, and blushed; Dots scattered, minute.
Basin wide, regular; Eye medium, closed.
Cavity wide, wavy; Stem short.
Core medium, regular, meeting the eye, closed; Seeds
Fig. 73. — GOLDEN SEEDLING.
numerous, angular, pale; Flesh yellow, juicy, rich; "Very good."
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Golden Seedling.
Supposed origin, Missouri.
Fruit large, roundish oblate, greenish yellow blush in the sun. Flesh yellowish, juicy, sharp subacid. February to May.