Winter Sweet Sugar

Pear

Winter Sweet Sugar

Origin and History

Not described in source.

Tree

Productive.

Fruit

Form: Turbinate.

Skin: Greenish.

Flesh and Flavor: Juicy, sweet, not very richly flavored.

Size, Stem, Cavity, Calyx, Basin, Core, and Seeds: Not described in source.

Season and Storage

Will keep until March.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes and Variants

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)

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Winter Sweet Sugar,

i. Brookshaw Hort. Reposit. 2:151, Pl. 81. 1823.

Tree productive. Fruit turbinate, greenish, juicy, sweet, not very richly flavored; will keep till March.

— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)