The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . r sweetapple, for the dessert, yet known or cultivated in this country. Its handsome appearance, delightful perfume, sprightly flavour,and the long time which it remains in perfection, render it uni-versally admired wherever it is known, and no garden shouldbe without it. It is a native of this neighbourhood, and thou-sands of trees of this variety have b
The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . r sweetapple, for the dessert, yet known or cultivated in this country. Its handsome appearance, delightful perfume, sprightly flavour,and the long time which it remains in perfection, render it uni-versally admired wherever it is known, and no garden shouldbe without it. It is a native of this neighbourhood, and thou-sands of trees of this variety have been sent from this garden,to various parts of the Union. The wood is not very strong, butit grows thriftily, and bears very abundantly. Fruit large, roundish-ovate, narrowing pretty rapidly to theeye. Skin very smooth, nearly covered with red in the sun, butpale yellowish-green in the shade, with broken stripes of palered. The red is sprinkled with well marked, yellowish-graydots, and covered, when first gathered, with a thin white is also generally a faint marbling of cloudy white over THE APPLE. 107 the red, on the shady side of the fruit, and rays of the samearound the stalk. Calyx quite small, set in a narrow, shallow,. Ladies Sweeting. plaited basin. Stalk half an inch long, in a shallow , greenish-white, exceedingly tender, juicy and crisp, witha delicious, sprightly, agreeably perfumed flavour. Keeps with-out shrivelling, or losing its flavour, till May. SwAAR. Coxe. Floy. Thomp. This is a truly noble American fruit, produced by the Dutchsettlers on the Hudson, near Esopus, and so termed, from itsunusual weight, this word, in the low Dutch, meaning requires a deep, rich, sandy loam, to bring it to perfection,and, in its native soils, we have seen it twelve inches in circum-ference, and of a deep golden yellow colour. It is one of thefinest flavoured apples in America, and deserves extensive cul-tivation, in all favourable positions, thoug
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