Morgan Sweet apple

Malus domestica

An old cider apple variety, popular in the "west country" of the UK, and sweet enough to eat fresh.

Parentage: Unknown
Origin: UK
Introduced: 18th century
Season: Early
Apple cultivar ID: 118600





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15 Jan 2010 23:33Mansel Lovering
As a young boy I was often sent to queue for whatever people were standing in line for, be it potatoes, carrots, of other vegetables. We did not see bananas, oranges, grapes or lemons, etc., from 1939 until a year or so after the war ended in 1945. Just now and again I was able to get a few apples. They were shaped like a pig's snout and my mother told me they were Morgan's Sweet. Oh! Boy! I would certainly queue for a pound of 'em now! It's more than nostalgia. It's not because we were deprived of fruit, especially apples that I loved the Morgan's Sweet. They had a flavour once tasted could never be forgotten. I enjoy Spartan apples nowadays, but they too have such a short season.. Please could some kind orchard keeper contact me in September when his/her Morgan's Sweet will be available. I'll pay over the odds for a couple of pounds, plus postage. Thanks. M.L.
29 Dec 2009 22:43Jean Lippett
I have several huge ancient Morgan Sweet trees in South Somerset, and I get visitors every autumn who have childhood nostalgia for the taste. They don't have any redness about them, similar to a golden delicious in appearance. They ripen quite early, in September at the latest and used to be biennial, though mine seem to be fruiting every year this decade. Very vigorous, they're been mistaken for perry pear trees and grew to about forty feet high till we decided to crop a winter's firewood by bringing the highest branches down to ten feet from the ground. They took that in their stride and are now thriving, despite being hollow-trunked and full of mistletoe. They were very mature trees in photos taken in the 1940s, I think they must be about 100 years old now. Showerings used to take the fruit for Babycham in the 50s.
06 Oct 2009 21:17ken
hi im just wondering if the morgan sweet apple is the s ame as a variety as the apple that i have come across it is blood red when peeled and has a very peculiar taste i call it a blood apple but have no idea what the true variety is called only that it is in a field and there is no other fruit trees ie pears plums only a couple of apple trees

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