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White Swan is a Russian apple cultivar recorded by N. E. Hansen in A Study of Northwestern Apples as catalog No. 219. Hansen described it from an 1898 showing at the Minnesota State Fair. The fruit looked much like Yellow Transparent, but had large white dots and a strongly corrugated basin. [S1]
The description is brief. The artificial key places White Swan among early summer apples in the green, yellow, or white class. It describes the fruit as pale yellow to white, never blushed, medium or larger, and subacid or acid. [S1] The narrative entry says the basin was wide and much corrugated. One key extraction also records a long stem and corrugated basin. [S1]
The available source gives no breeder, direct parentage, release date, storage behavior, culinary use, tree habit, disease notes, or explicit hardiness zone. Its Russian origin and inclusion in a northwestern apple bulletin give it historical cold region context, but the packet does not support a stronger hardiness claim. [S1]
White Swan is best understood here as a Russian Malus domestica cultivar or accession known from late nineteenth century exhibition material. It is notable mainly for its resemblance to Yellow Transparent, its distinctive white lenticel dots, and its corrugated basin. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples.
Featured source descriptions
“As shown at the Minnesota State Fair in 1898, this was much like Yellow Transparent.”
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“Class C, Early Summer, flesh subacid or acid; pale yellow to white, never blushed; size medium or above; basin wide, much corrugated.”
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“The basin was wide and much corrugated.”
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 14 | A Study of Northwestern Apples | unknown | 6 | 0 | 0 | p115 p137 | Basin narrow and corrugated; stem long.; Basin described as wide and much corrugated.; Dots were large and white; other descriptors are minimal in this extract.; Reported at Minnesota State Fair in 1898; compared directl |
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| 14 | p137 | description_snippet | Basin narrow and corrugated; stem long. | Basin narrow, corrugated, stem long ... White Swan | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | description_snippet | Basin described as wide and much corrugated. | White Swan (No. 219)- 0rig in, Russia-As shown at the Minnesota State Fair in 18 98 this was much like Yellow Transparent, but the dots were large and white ; the basin wide and much corrugated. | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | fruit_color | Dots were large and white; other descriptors are minimal in this extract. | White Swan (No. 219)- 0rig in, Russia-As shown at the Minnesota State Fair in 18 98 this was much like Yellow Transparent, but the dots were large and white ; the basin wide and much corrugated. | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | anecdote_snippet | Reported at Minnesota State Fair in 1898; compared directly to Yellow Transparent with larger white dots and strongly corrugated basin. | White Swan (No. 219)- 0rig in, Russia-As shown at the Minnesota State Fair in 18 98 this was much like Yellow Transparent, but the dots were large and white ; the basin wide and much corrugated. | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | selection_origin_reference | Origin is indicated as Russia. | White Swan (No. 219)- 0rig in, Russia-As shown at the Minnesota State Fair in 18 98 this was much like Yellow Transparent, but the dots were large and white ; the basin wide and much corrugated. | page_block:0.90 |
| 14 | p115 | entry_pedigree | Catalog number given as No. 219. | White Swan (No. 219)- 0rig in, Russia-As shown at the Minnesota State Fair in 18 98 this was much like Yellow Transparent, but the dots were large and white ; the basin wide and much corrugated. | page_block:0.90 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| description_snippet | Basin narrow and corrugated; stem long. | 0.93 |
| description_snippet | Basin described as wide and much corrugated. | 0.88 |
| fruit_color | Dots were large and white; other descriptors are minimal in this extract. | 0.90 |
| anecdote_snippet | Reported at Minnesota State Fair in 1898; compared directly to Yellow Transparent with larger white dots and strongly corrugated basin. | 0.92 |
| selection_origin_reference | Origin is indicated as Russia. | 0.98 |
| entry_pedigree | Catalog number given as No. 219. | 0.96 |
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