A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, and the management of orchards and cider; with accurate descriptions of the most estimable varieties of native and foreign apples, pears, peaches, plums, and cherries, cultivated in the middle states of America: illustrated by cuts of two hundred kinds of fruits of the natural size .. . No. 81. Winter No» 82. American Pippin. APPLES. - 145 It was first cultivated by a family in the county ofBurlington New-Jersey, from whom it derived itsname—it is sometimes called Coates Greening, fromanother family in the same county. NO. 77» REINETTE GRISE. T
A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, and the management of orchards and cider; with accurate descriptions of the most estimable varieties of native and foreign apples, pears, peaches, plums, and cherries, cultivated in the middle states of America: illustrated by cuts of two hundred kinds of fruits of the natural size .. . No. 81. Winter No» 82. American Pippin. APPLES. - 145 It was first cultivated by a family in the county ofBurlington New-Jersey, from whom it derived itsname—it is sometimes called Coates Greening, fromanother family in the same county. NO. 77» REINETTE GRISE. This is described as an apple of superior excel-lence by the French writers, but does not in tliis coun-try appear to merit so high a character—^the size isbelow middling—the form flat, with a small hollow ateach end—the skin thick and rough, with some rus-set : sometimes it is a bright yellow, with some red inspots: the flesh is firm, and of a yellowish white—thejuice abundant, sweet and sprightly. It ripens in thebeginning of winter, and keeps late in the spring. NO. 78. PENNOCK. A very large, fair, red apple, much admired as anearly winter fruit; the form is singular; when standingon its end, the axis of the fruit inclines twelve to fif-teen degrees from a perpendicular line—the shape va-ries, but is generally flat—the skin
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