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Munson's Sweet
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie
synonyms: Meacham Sweet, Munson, Munson's Sweeting, Northern Sweet, Orange, Orange Sweet, Rag Apple, Ray Apple
summary: This yellow apple is good for baking as well as eating out of hand, also favoured for cider making for its high sugar content and rich flavours. At one time it almost disappeared, but it has been recovered with scionwood once again available.
identification: Medium size fruit tending to large, round-conic with prominent, rounded ribs that extend to the crown. The skin is smooth and thick, light golden yellow, often with a red blush on the sun-exposed face. Russet lenticels. The stem is short and moderately thick, set in a wide and somewhat deep, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained, tender, juicy and extremely sweet with no tartness.
origins: Originated in Massachusetts (U.S.A.) before 1849. Though grown widely in the United States into the early 1900s, it gradually declined and might have disappeared altogether had an ancient tree not been found by State of Maine fruit explorer, the late Russell Libby.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, dome-shaped growth habit with slender branches. Precocious. Produces biennial crops.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: Ripens progressively starting late in the fourth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
brix: 14
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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