. Fruits and fruit-trees of a Cider. Popular Bluff. Fuller. ^ Fowler. Origin, Bucks Co., Pa. This Apple is widely grown, and much es-teemed as a profitable market sort. The tree is a very vigorous, strag- THE APPLE. 355 gling, spreading grower, and productive. Young wood a rich darkbrown. Fruit medium to large, 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 closed,set in a broad, rather shallow basin. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp,pleasant, mild subacid.
. Fruits and fruit-trees of a Cider. Popular Bluff. Fuller. ^ Fowler. Origin, Bucks Co., Pa. This Apple is widely grown, and much es-teemed as a profitable market sort. The tree is a very vigorous, strag- THE APPLE. 355 gling, spreading grower, and productive. Young wood a rich darkbrown. Fruit medium to large, 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 closed,set in a broad, rather shallow basin. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp,pleasant, mild subacid. Good. December, March. Smokehouse. Millcreek Vandevere. Red Vandevere. English Yandevere. 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 Yandevere, and is supposed to be a seedling of it. Tree moderately vigorous, with a spreading head, a good wood dull dark reddish SmokehiOTise, 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 yellowish, somewhat firm, juicy, crisp, rather rich subacid. to February. Yalued for culinary uses. Snediker. Origin 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. Fruit above medium, almost large, flat, dull green, becoming paleyellow, with many dark dots that of
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