The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . Pennsylvania Popular BlufE. Origin, Bucks Co., Pa, This Apple is widely grown, and mucJi esteemed as a profitable market sort. The tree is a very vigorous, strag- THE APPLE. 35^ gling, spreading grower, and productive. Young wood a rich darkbrown. Fruit medium to laige, roundish oblate conic, yellow, shaded andstriped with red, sparsely covered with gray dots. Stalk slender, ofmedium length, inserted in a deep, rather narrow cavity. Calyx closedset in a broad, rather shallow basin. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp,pleasant, mild subacid
The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . Pennsylvania Popular BlufE. Origin, Bucks Co., Pa, This Apple is widely grown, and mucJi esteemed as a profitable market sort. The tree is a very vigorous, strag- THE APPLE. 35^ gling, spreading grower, and productive. Young wood a rich darkbrown. Fruit medium to laige, roundish oblate conic, yellow, shaded andstriped with red, sparsely covered with gray dots. Stalk slender, ofmedium length, inserted in a deep, rather narrow cavity. Calyx closedset in a broad, rather shallow basin. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp,pleasant, mild subacid. Good. December, March. Millcreek Vandevere. Vandevere. English Vandevere. Origin, Lancaster Co., Pa., near Millcreek, grew on the farm of Gibbons, near his smokehouse, hence its name. An old variety and popular in Pennsylvania. It somewhat resembles the old Pennsyl-vania Vandevere, and is supposed to be a seedling of it. Tree moderately vigorous, with a spreading head, a good wood dull dark reddish Smokehouse. Fruit rather above medium, roundish oblate, skin yellow, shadedand splashed with crimson, and thinly sprinkled with large gray andbrown dots. Stalk rather long, curved, inserted in a broad closed, set in a wide basin, of moderate depth, slightly corrugated,Flesh yellowish, somewhat firm, juicy, crisp, rather rich subacid. Good-September to February. Valued for culinary uses. unknown. Tree an upright vigorous grower, productive. 356 THE APPLE. Fruit large, roundish conical, sides unequal, yellow, marbled withlarge red dots, few gray dots. Stalk very short. Calyx closed or par-tially open. Basin slightly corrugated. Flesh yellowish, crisp, juicy,tender, brisk subacid. Core rather small. Good. December, February Snepps. Supposed origin, Edinburgh, la. Tree vigorous and sufficiently pro-ductive. Fiuit above medium, almost large, flat, dull green, becoming paleyellow, with many dark dots that often
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