Archive image from page 71 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 52 POUND SWEET PUMPKIN SWEET ter originated about 1800 with Rev. Samuel Porter, Sherburne, Massachusetts. The va- riety is planted more or less wherever apples are grown in the United States. Tree large, vigorous, round or spreading. Fruit usually large, oblong-conic, truncate at base and with apex oblique and ribbed; stem short, thick, sometimes knobbed, curved; cavity acute, deep, narrow, sym- metrical or compresesd, sometimes lipped, usually faintly russeted; calyx
Archive image from page 71 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 52 POUND SWEET PUMPKIN SWEET ter originated about 1800 with Rev. Samuel Porter, Sherburne, Massachusetts. The va- riety is planted more or less wherever apples are grown in the United States. Tree large, vigorous, round or spreading. Fruit usually large, oblong-conic, truncate at base and with apex oblique and ribbed; stem short, thick, sometimes knobbed, curved; cavity acute, deep, narrow, sym- metrical or compresesd, sometimes lipped, usually faintly russeted; calyx large, closed or open; lobes usually separated at base, short, narrow, acute; basin deep, shallow, narrow, abrupt, broadly furrowed and wrinkled ; skin thin, smooth, glossy, yellow with faint blush, usually obscurely striped with darker red, marked with scattering red dots; dots small, submerged, green with white center, sometimes russet ; calyx-tube short, wide, broadly conical; stamens median; core large, axile or abaxile; cells partly open or wide open; core-lines meeting; carpels broadly ovate, mucronate; seeds me- dium to large, plump, rounded, acute; flesh yellow, fine, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, agreeably aromatic, sprightly ; good to very good ; September to November. POUND SWEET: See Pumpkin Sweet. PRIMATE. Fig. 43. Harvest. July Apple. Sour Harvest. Sour Bough. Primate is another choicely good fall apple, preceding Porter in season, and so different in most characters as sort, formerly a great favorite in New England, is hardly surpassed in tree-characters, but the apples are so coarse as to be fit only for cooking, and are none too good for culinary purposes. The variety has been grown in New England for a century. It seems to have been described first in 1832. Tree large, vigorous, round or spreading, open; branches long, stout, curved. Fruit large, uniform in size and shape, oblate or conic, sometimes irregular, faintly ribbed, often compressed; stem short,
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