Description
Hightop Sweet, also known as High Top Sweeting, Summer Sweet, and Sweet June, is a medium-sized apple with smooth greenish-yellow skin and an occasional red blush. Its yellow flesh is dry, and its flavor sweet. It is used mostly for baking and drying. Among the earliest ripening of apples, it is harvested in late June to July in most areas.
Discovered: 1600s, Massachusetts
Parentage: Unknown
Harvest: Early Season
History
Hightop Sweet originated in the 1600s in Plymouth, Massachusetts.