Large Yellow Bough
Apple
Large Yellow Bough
Origin and History
A native American apple ripening at harvest time. Ranked as one of the first quality, second only to Early Harvest as a dessert fruit. It is too sweet for culinary applications in pies and sauce, but is generally much admired for table consumption and is worthy of a place in every fruit collection.
Tree
Moderately vigorous with abundant bearing habit. Forms a round head. Young shoots grayish brown, very slightly downy.
Fruit
Size and Form Above the middle size; oblong ovate in form.
Skin Smooth, pale greenish yellow.
Stem and Eye Stalk rather long. Eye narrow and deep.
Flesh and Flavor Flesh white, very tender and crisp when fully ripe. Flavor rich, sweet, and sprightly.
Season
Ripens from the middle of July to the tenth of August.
Uses
Primarily suited for table consumption as a dessert fruit. Not recommended for kitchen use (pies, sauce) due to excessive sweetness.
Subtypes and Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Large Yellow Bough.
Early Sweet Bough. Sweet Harvest. Bough. August Sweet. Washington, incorrectly. Sweet Bough.
A native Apple, ripening in harvest time, and one of the first quality, only second as a dessert fruit to the Early Harvest. It is not so much esteemed for the kitchen as the latter, as it is too sweet for pies and sauce, but it is generally much admired for the table, and is worthy of a place in every collection.
Fruit above the middle size, and oblong ovate in form. Skin smooth, pale greenish yellow. Stalk rather long, and the eye narrow and deep. Flesh white, very tender and crisp when fully ripe, and with a rich, sweet, sprightly flavor. Ripens from the middle of July to the tenth of August. Tree moderately vigorous, bears abundantly, and forms a round head. Young shoots grayish brown, very slightly downy.