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 .. . ale yellow skin, cloudedwith black spots—the flesh close grained, with a yel-low cast, hard and deficient in flavour—it hangs onthe tree very late, and may be preserved till the fol-lowing autumn: tliis is its gieatest excellence, for itis deficient in all the other req
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 .. . ale yellow skin, cloudedwith black spots—the flesh close grained, with a yel-low cast, hard and deficient in flavour—it hangs onthe tree very late, and may be preserved till the fol-lowing autumn: tliis is its gieatest excellence, for itis deficient in all the other requisites of a fine apple,although much sought for as a rare and curious fruit. NO. 94. TEWKSBURY WINTER BLUSH. This apple was brought from the township of-Tewksbury in Hunterdon county, New-Jersey—it isa very handsome fair fruit, with more flavour and jui-ciness than is to be usually found in keeping apples ;Ihave eaten them in good condition in August of thesecond year, preserved without particular care, per-fectly plump and sound. The size is small; the formround; the skin smooth: the colour yellow, with abright red cheek—the flesh yellow, tolerably juicy,and well flavoured, with a considerable degree ofsprightliness: the tree is of vigorous growth, straight,and well formed—the fruit hangs late in the No. 92, Carthouse, or Gilpin,
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