Moore's Sweeting.

RED SWEET PIPPIN.—BLACK SWEET.

This valuable winter sweet apple is much cultivated throughout the West on account of its productiveness,

Fig. 64.—MOORE'S SWEETING.

and the amount of nutriment it furnishes to both man and animals. Tree vigorous, healthy, spreading, round, with branches sufficiently open; Shoots dark olive; Foliage large, dark green.

Fruit medium to large, globular-oblate, regular; Surface smooth, greenish-yellow, covered with dull red in confused stripes and shaded with gray that gives the fruit a purple hue; Dots minute and few; Skin thick.

Basin wide, wavy or folded; Eye medium, closed.

Cavity wide or acute, deep, green or brown; Stem short, rather stout.

Core small, closed; Seeds numerous, plump, pale; Flesh yellow, dry, firm; Flavor very sweet; Quality inferior, for the dessert; Use, baking, market, stock, cider; Season from December to March and later, keeping very sound.

— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)

Moore's Sweet.

Sweet Pippin. Polhemus. Red Sweet Pippin. Pound Sweet of some.

Tree moderately vigorous, very productive. Although not a first-class Apple, it is a very profitable and valuable one for all cooking or stock-feeding purposes.

Fruit medium, roundish oblate, dark dull red, with a slight bloom, small light-colored dots. Flesh yellowish, rich, pleasant sweet. Good. Core small. November to May.

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

Kelly's Sweet. See Moore's Sweet.

[Note: The full entry for Moore's Sweet does not appear on page 730. Only a cross-reference from "Kelly's Sweet" pointing to "Moore's Sweet" appears on this page. The actual Moore's Sweet description must be located elsewhere in the book, likely in the M section.]

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

MOORE SWEET.

REFERENCES. 1. New England Farmer, 1829. (cited by 17). 2. Cole, 1849:131. 3. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:91. 1851. 4. Elliott, 1854:159. 5. Downing, 1857:218. 6. Hooper, 1857:61. 7. Warder, 1867:396. fig. 8. Fitz, 1872:175. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1873. 10. Barry, 1883:349. 11. Thomas, 1885:518. 12. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:245. 13. Burrill and McCluer, Ill. Sta. Bul., 45:333. 1896. 14. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bul., 48:49. 1903. 15. Budd-Hansen, 1903:132. 16. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bul., 248:133. 1904. 17. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. Bul., 56:202. 1905.

SYNONYMS. Black Sweet (7, 17). Josie Moore (17). Kelley's Sweet (17). MOORE'S LATE SWEET (2, 3). Moore's Late Sweet (17). Moore's Shanty (17). MOORE'S SWEET (8, 10, 12). Moore's Sweet (17). MOORE'S SWEETING (1, 7, 11). Moore's Sweeting (4, 17). MOOR'S SWEETING (6). Polhemus (17). Pound Sweet (of some West 4 and 6, of some 17). Red Sweet Pippin (5, 7, 10, 13, 17, of Indiana 4 and 6). Red Winter Sweet of some (17). SWEET PIPPIN (4). Sweet Pippin (6, 17).

Fruit fairly uniform, of pretty good size and rather dull red color; general appearance moderately attractive. In some portions of the state it has been valued particularly because it is an excellent keeper and acceptable in quality for culinary use. It is in season from November to May or June. As grown at this Station its commercial limit in ordinary storage is April (16). The tree comes into bearing rather young. It is usually a good cropper, producing rather heavy crops biennially, or in some cases almost annually.

Historical. Originated with J. B. Moore, Concord, Massachusetts. Cole in 1849, speaks of it as a new variety (2) but it had been brought to notice at least twenty years previously (1). It is not grown extensively in any locality and is now seldom planted in this state but it is still occasionally offered by nurserymen (12).

TREE.

Tree medium to large, moderately vigorous; branches short, stout, crooked. Form open, upright, becoming roundish and somewhat spreading. Twigs short, straight or somewhat geniculate, rather stout with large terminal buds; internodes medium to short. Bark olive-green tinged with reddish-brown, streaked with gray scarf-skin; pubescent near tips. Lenticels inconspicuous, scattering, small, roundish. Buds prominent, large to below medium, broad, plump, free, slightly pubescent.

FRUIT.

Fruit medium to large, uniform in size and shape. Form roundish, varying from oblate to somewhat conic, sometimes regular and symmetrical but more often somewhat elliptical or ribbed and with sides slightly unequal. Stem short, usually not exserted. Cavity medium to rather large, acuminate, moderately narrow to rather wide, deep, somewhat furrowed, usually russeted and with outspreading russet rays. Calyx rather small, usually closed; lobes acute, erect or somewhat reflexed. Basin rather small, abrupt, narrow to moderately wide, medium in depth, slightly furrowed and wrinkled. Skin smooth or nearly so, rather pale in color being yellow or greenish largely overspread with a red or pinkish-red blush and dulled by grayish scarf-skin which often produces the effect of faint stripes over the base although the red is not striped. Dots pale russet, scattering. Prevailing effect red. Calyx tube rather small, conical to funnel-form. Stamens below median to basal. Core rather small, axile or nearly so; cells symmetrical, not uniform, closed or sometimes open; core lines meeting or clasping. Carpels roundish to elliptical, mucronate, emarginate, somewhat tufted. Seeds few, medium or above, wide, obtuse, somewhat tufted. Flesh tinged with yellow or green, moderately firm, moderately fine-grained, tender, rather dry, sweet, good.

— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 1 (1905)

Moore Sweet. — Of American origin; tree vigorous, very productive.

Fruit medium to large; form roundish oblate, regular; skin thick; surface smooth, greenish yellow, entirely covered with dull dark red in obscure stripes overlaid with grayish bloom, giving the fruit a purple color; dots minute, few; cavity wide, or acute, deep, green or brown; stem short, rather stout; basin wide, wavy or plaited; calyx closed. Core small, closed; seeds numerous, plump, pale; flesh yellow, rich, dry, firm, very sweet, good. December to May.

— J.L. Budd & N.E. Hansen, American Horticultural Manual, Part II: Systematic Pomology (1914)

Moore's Sweet. Size: medium. Form: roundish oblate. Quality: very good. Use: both kitchen and market. Season: winter.

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