Sack and Sugar
Apple
Sack and Sugar
Origin/History
Raised at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Mr. Morris, a market gardener at Brentford, in Essex, and sometimes bears his name as Morris's Sack and Sugar. Downing characterizes it as "a little, old, early English Apple."
Tree
Hardy, a free and vigorous grower, and an immense bearer (Herefordshire Pomona). Downing similarly describes it as a fine grower and good bearer.
Fruit
Size and Form: Below medium size, two inches and a quarter wide and an inch and three quarters high (Herefordshire Pomona); Downing describes it simply as small. The Herefordshire Pomona gives the form as roundish, inclining to oval, with prominent ridges round the eye; Downing describes the form as roundish conical — a partial conflict in form.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx/Basin: Eye closed, with pointed segments overlapping each other, set rather deeply in a round, angular, and plaited basin.
Skin: Pale yellow, marked with a few broken stripes and streaks of bright crimson on the side next the sun.
Flesh/Flavor: White, very soft and tender, very juicy, sugary, and with a pleasant, brisk, balsamic flavour. Quality rated Good.
Core/Seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Ripens at the end of July and the beginning of August, and continues through September.
Uses
An excellent apple for both dessert and culinary use.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
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— Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)PLATE XXVII.
- SACK AND SUGAR.
[Syn : Morris's Sack and Sugar.]
This Apple was raised the beginning of the present century, by Mr. Morris, a market gardener at Brentford, in Essex, and sometimes bears his name.
Description.—Fruit: below medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and an inch and three quarters high ; roundish, inclining to oval, with prominent ridges round the eye. Skin : pale yellow, marked with a few broken stripes and streaks of bright crimson on the side next the sun. Eye : closed, with pointed segments overlapping each other, and set rather deeply in a round, angular and plaited basin. Flesh : white, very soft and tender, very juicy, sugary, and with a pleasant, brisk, balsamic flavour.
An excellent apple for dessert, or culinary use. It ripens in the end of July and beginning of August and continues during September.
The tree is hardy, a free and vigorous grower, and an immense bearer.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Sack and Sugar. Morris's Sack and Sugar. A little, old, early English Apple. Tree a fine grower, and good bearer. Fruit small, roundish conical, pale yellow. Flesh white, soft, juicy sweet. Good. August.