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Patten
type: Culinary, Dessert
synonyms: Green, Patten, Patten Green, Patten Greening. Yeager's Sweet is considered by some to be the same apple. Note that there is also a pear variety that goes by the name Patten.
summary: A Oldenburg seedling very similar to its parent, good for pies and sauces, passable as a fresh-eating apple. Hardy.
identification: Medium tending to large, round and often irregular shape with faintly angular sides. The skin is yellowish green, blushed brownish on the sun-exposed face and marked with small, white dots. The calyx is open and large, set in a medium deep and funnel-shaped basin. The stem is short and stout, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, juicy. Moderately fine-grained, similar to that of its Duchess of Oldenburg parent.
origins: A seedling of Duchess of Oldenburg grown in 1869 by C.G. Patten of Charles City, Iowa (U.S.A.).
Listed by C.L. Watrous in the 1893 Gilbert Nursery catalogue as having originated in Floyd County, Iowa (U.S.A.), as a seedling of Duchess of Oldenburg. Yeager's Sweet is often suggested to be one and the same as the Patten.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading. Hardy
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: Starting early in the fourth period and continues for about three weeks.
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 3
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