Newtown Spitzenburg

Newtown Spitzenburg, painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore in 1905 for the US Department of Agriculture. Deborah Griscom Passmore. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Newtown, Long Island, United States, by 1817
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, flat fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour orange, striped
Flesh: Cream; firm, coarse
Flavour: Sweet subacid
Also called: Barrett's Spitzenberg; Barrett's Spitzenburgh; Barretts Spitzenburgh; Burlington; Burlington Spitzemberg; Burlington Spitzenberg; English Spitzemberg; English Spitzenberg; Joc Berry; Joe Berry; Kounty; Kountz; Matchless; New York Vandevere; Newton Spitszenburgh; Newton Spitzemberg; Newton Spitzenberg; Newton Spitzenburg; Newton Spitzenburgh; Newtown Spitzemberg; Newtown Spitzenberg; Newtown Spitzenbergh; Newtown Spitzenburgh; Ox Eye; Ox-Eye; Queen of the Dessert; Spiced Ox Eye; Spiced Ox-Eye; Spitzemberg; Spitzenburgh; Vandervere; Vandervere of New York; Vandevere; Vandevere of New York

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Originated at Newtown, Long Island, USA. It was recorded in 1817. Fruits have firm, coarse, creamy yellow flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Where Newtown Spitzenburg came from.

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Newtown Spitzenburg (accession 1950 - 182), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late october); the other names.

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