Moore's Sweeting

Apple

Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)

Moore's Sweeting

Alternate Names: Red Sweet Pippin, Black Sweet

Origin and History

A valuable winter sweet apple much cultivated throughout the West on account of its productiveness and the amount of nutriment it furnishes to both man and animals.

Tree

Tree vigorous, healthy, spreading, and round, with branches sufficiently open. Shoots dark olive. Foliage large and dark green.

Fruit

Size and Form: 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.

Stem: Short, rather stout.

Cavity: Wide or acute, deep, green or brown.

Basin: Wide, wavy or folded.

Eye: Medium, closed.

Core: Small, closed.

Seeds: Numerous, plump, pale.

Flesh and Flavor: Yellow, dry, and firm. Flavor very sweet.

Season and Storage

Season from December to March and later, keeping very sound.

Uses

Baking, market, stock, cider.

Quality

Quality inferior for the dessert.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)

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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)

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