Sleeping Beauty

Apple

Sleeping Beauty

Also known as Winter Sleeping Beauty and Sleeper.

Origin/History Not described in source.

Tree An 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/Seeds: Not described in source

Season November to February.

Uses Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants Not described in source.

Other Description sourced from Downing via Hogg.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Nursery Catalog Sources

Found in 2 catalogs (1901–1913) from Illinois

Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913

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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