Green Newtown
Apple
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Green Newtown
Origin/History
Not described in source.
Tree
A rather slow grower or moderately vigorous, of medium size or sometimes becoming large. Laterals shorter, twisted, spreading and drooping more than those of the Yellow Newtown. Form spreading or roundish, rather dense. Twigs medium in length and thickness, pubescent near tips; internodes medium to rather long. Bark clear dark brownish-red, lightly streaked with scarf-skin. Lenticels quite numerous, medium or below, somewhat elongated, raised, rather conspicuous. Buds medium, broad, plump, obtuse, free, slightly pubescent.
Fruit
Size and Form: Medium to very large, pretty uniform in size but rather variable in form and coloring. Form usually roundish oblate and more or less angular. As grown in Southeastern New York it often has an oblique axis and is sometimes decidedly elliptical, but in Western New York the tendency of the fruit to grow with an oblique axis is less marked and the fruit is less often elliptical and more nearly symmetrical.
Stem: Medium or short.
Cavity: Deep, acuminate to acute, broad or compressed, often sending out rays of russet.
Calyx: Rather small to medium, closed or nearly so; lobes rather small, acute.
Basin: Medium in width and depth, furrowed and often somewhat wrinkled.
Skin: Rather tough, smooth or slightly roughened with brownish-russet dots, grass-green at fruit harvest but sometimes pretty yellow later, and often showing some brownish or brownish-pink color, especially near the base. White submerged dots are especially numerous toward the eye and whitish scarf-skin stripes extend over the base.
Flesh and Flavor: Flesh yellowish or tinged with green according to the color of the fruit, firm, crisp, tender, moderately fine-grained, juicy, sprightly, with a fine aromatic subacid flavor; best.
Core and Seeds: Calyx tube long, funnel-shape to nearly conical. Stamens median to basal. Core small to medium, somewhat abaxile; cells fairly symmetrical, closed or nearly so; core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish or roundish obcordate, emarginate, tufted. Seeds tufted, medium or above, dark, narrow, acuminate.
Season
February to May.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (Lowther, 1914) includes this variety in a variety-characteristic table:
Description absent; variety present in variety-characteristic table.
Green Newtown.............. M | rob | gy | VG | b | W
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
USDA Nomenclature (1905)
From W.H. Ragan, Nomenclature of the Apple, USDA Bulletin No. 56
Distinct from Yellow Newtown.
View original book sources (2)
— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 1 (1905)GREEN NEWTOWN.
TREE.
Tree a rather slow grower or moderately vigorous, of medium size or sometimes becoming large. Laterals shorter, twisted, spreading and drooping more than those of the Yellow Newtown. Form spreading or roundish, rather dense. Twigs medium in length and thickness, pubescent near tips; internodes medium to rather long. Bark clear dark brownish-red, lightly streaked with scarf-skin. Lenticels quite numerous, medium or below, somewhat elongated, raised, rather conspicuous. Buds medium, broad, plump, obtuse, free, slightly pubescent.
FRUIT.
Fruit medium to very large, pretty uniform in size but rather variable in form and coloring. Form usually roundish oblate and more or less angular. As grown in Southeastern New York it often has an oblique axis and is sometimes decidedly elliptical, but in Western New York the tendency of the fruit to grow with an oblique axis is less marked and the fruit is less often elliptical and more nearly symmetrical. Stem medium or short. Cavity deep, acuminate to acute, broad or compressed, often sending out rays of russet. Calyx rather small to medium, closed or nearly so; lobes rather small, acute. Basin medium in width and depth, furrowed and often somewhat wrinkled.
Skin rather tough, smooth or slightly roughened with brownish-russet dots, grass-green at fruit harvest but sometimes pretty yellow later, and often showing some brownish or brownish-pink color, especially near the base. White submerged dots are especially numerous toward the eye and whitish scarf-skin stripes extend over the base.
Calyx tube long, funnel-shape to nearly conical. Stamens median to basal. Core small to medium, somewhat abaxile; cells fairly symmetrical, closed or nearly so; core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish or roundish obcordate, emarginate, tufted. Seeds tufted, medium or above, dark, narrow, acuminate.
Flesh yellowish or tinged with green according to the color of the fruit, firm, crisp, tender, moderately fine-grained, juicy, sprightly, with a fine aromatic subacid flavor, best.
Season February to May.
— Granville Lowther (ed.), Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914)Green Newtown.............. M | rob | gy | VG | b | W