. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1912 . Dorcus recalls it as being in a field near a ravine, standing apartfrom any other trees, while others say that it stood in the orchard onthe Baumgardner farm; but as to the more important features, thisaccount appears to be well authenticated. There is another account2 of this variety which locates the originaltree about one-half mile from Woodsboro, Frederick County, Md.,on a farm owned at the time by the late George Livingston Mr. Smith gathered his apples in the fall of 1865 he wasattracted by this particular
. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1912 . Dorcus recalls it as being in a field near a ravine, standing apartfrom any other trees, while others say that it stood in the orchard onthe Baumgardner farm; but as to the more important features, thisaccount appears to be well authenticated. There is another account2 of this variety which locates the originaltree about one-half mile from Woodsboro, Frederick County, Md.,on a farm owned at the time by the late George Livingston Mr. Smith gathered his apples in the fall of 1865 he wasattracted by this particular variety, which apparently had remainedunnoticed in previous years. It is stated that after due effort hadbeen made to ascertain the name of the variety without success hecalled it the Smith apple. This name is still applied to thisvariety in some localities in Frederick County. 1 Letter from Mr. Veant, November, 1912. 2 Letters from Mr. D. A. Sharetts, October, 1912; also from Mt Charles E. Klein,November, 1912. Yearbook U. S. Dept of Agriculture, 1912 Plate Iyoa1912. 266
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