Tolman Sweet

'Tolman Sweet'
Tree located at the Gibson House in Toronto
SpeciesMalus pumila

The Tolman Sweet is a cultivar of apple with a butter yellow color, with faint russet dots [1] and a "suture line" along one side of the fruit from top to bottom.[2]

  • Typical size: width 71–79 mm, height 59–67 mm, stalk 18–27 mm.[3][4][5]
  • Eye small, closed.
  • Core heart-shaped, axile, closed.
  • Flesh yellowish to white, breaking, firm, very sweet, rich, rather dry, moderately, juicy.
  • Tree hardy, very productive, moderately vigorous.[6][7]
  1. ^ Lape, Fred (1973). "The Decline of the Apple". Arnoldia. 33 (4): 217–227. doi:10.5962/p.249642. JSTOR 42955005.
  2. ^ Beach, SA; et al. (1905). The Apples of New York. Albany: J.B. Lyon.
  3. ^ Warder, American Pomology
  4. ^ Downing, Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, 1885
  5. ^ Beach, The Apples of New York, 1905
  6. ^ Warder, American Pomology
  7. ^ Beach, The Apples of New York, 1905