_Synonyms_: Ramsdell's Sweet, Ramsdell's Sweeting, Ramsdell's Red
Pumpkin Sweet, Avery Sweet, and Ramsdell's Red Winter.
This old variety is esteemed where grown for the large crops which it
bears, and as a showy sweet apple for market, and profitable for stock
feeding, as well as superior for cooking. The tree is very vigorous,
grows remarkably straight and upright, comes early into bearing, and
yields enormously every year. Young shoots clear, reddish brown,
slightly grayish. Fruit rather above medium size, oblong, regularly
shaped, and tapering slightly towards the eye; dark red, dotted with
fawn-colored specks, and covered with a blue bloom. Flesh yellowish,
very tender and mellow, usually sweet and rich. Good to very good. In
weight the apple is light. October to February.