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Sleeping Beauty

Apple

Sleeping Beauty

Origin/History Not described in source.

Tree Excellent bearer.

Fruit

  • Size: Medium
  • Form: Roundish, somewhat flattened
  • Skin: Straw-color, washed with lively red
  • Flesh: Yellowish white, crisp, tender, juicy, acid
  • Stem, cavity, calyx, basin, core, and seeds: Not described in source.

Season November to February.

Uses Not described in source.

Other Also known as Winter Sleeping Beauty and Sleeper. Description sourced from Hogg's variety documentation, as cited by Downing.

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Sleeping Beauty.

Winter Sleeping Beauty. Sleeper.

Tree an excellent bearer.

Fruit medium, roundish, somewhat flattened, straw-color, washed with lively red. Flesh yellowish white, crisp, tender, juicy, acid. November, February. (Hogg.)

A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)
Sleeper Winter Sleeping Beauty