Spice Sweet

Apple

Origin/History: Not described in source

Tree: Vigorous and productive.

Fruit:

Form and Size: Medium, oblate
Skin: Smooth, pale yellow
Flesh and Flavor: Rather firm, sweet, and highly aromatic; apt to be knotty and unfair

Season: August, September

Uses: Not described in source

Subtypes/Variants: Not described in source

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

USDA Nomenclature (1905)

From W.H. Ragan, Nomenclature of the Apple, USDA Bulletin No. 56

Three descriptions under this name, probably of one apple.

View original book sources (1)

Spice Sweet. Berry Bough. Tree vigorous, productive, medium, oblate, smooth, pale yellow. Flesh rather firm, sweet, highly aromatic, apt to be knotty and unfair. August, September.

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

Berry Bough Mass Shelborne's Sweet Shelburne's Sweet Spice Apple Spurr Apple Sweet Spice Spice Sweeting, or Berry Bough Sack Apple