Pumpkin Sweet

Pumpkin Sweet, painted by Royal Charles Steadman in 1925 for the US Department of Agriculture. Royal Charles Steadman. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: Manchester, Connecticut, United States, by 1834
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert, Cooking
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, ellipsoid fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour brown
Flesh: Yellowish; firm
Flavour: Sweet
Also called: Lyman's Large Yellow; Lyman's Pumpkin Sweet; Pound Sweet; Pumpkin Sweeting; Rhode Island Sweet; Round Sweet; Sweet Lyman's Pumpkin; Sweet Pumpkin; Vermont Pumpkin Sweet; Vermont Sweet; Yankee Apple

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

Originated in the orchard of S. Lyman, Manchester, Connecticut, USA. Recorded in 1834. Fruits have firm, fairly crisp, yellow flesh with a sweet flavour.

Where Pumpkin Sweet came from.

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Pumpkin Sweet (accession 1943 - 004), 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 (early october); the other names.

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