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. 73. Green Newton No. 7^. Michael Henry Pippin jiPPLES. 141 NO. 70. SWEET PIPPIN. Is a large fair flat apple; its shape horizontally israther elliptick than circular: the colour is a brownishred, with a mixture of a small portion of greenish yel-low, somewha
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. 73. Green Newton No. 7^. Michael Henry Pippin jiPPLES. 141 NO. 70. SWEET PIPPIN. Is a large fair flat apple; its shape horizontally israther elliptick than circular: the colour is a brownishred, with a mixture of a small portion of greenish yel-low, somewhat resembling in appearance the grey-house—^the stalk is short and deeply planted in alarge cavity—^the crown is much sunk; the flesh firmand solid—it is a sweet apple, rather dry, and defi-cient in flavour—the tree bears abundantly. NO. 71. VANDEEVERE This apple is sometimes called the Staalcubs, froma family in Delaware State, by whom it was ; it is of moderate size, and when growing on ahighly cultivated light rich soil, is a much admiredfruit for culinary purposes : it is a tolerable eating ap-ple, and when free from the bitter rot, makes goodcider—it is a winter fruit, but can be used for cookingvery early, when quite green, and not half form is flat; when ripe, the skin is a pale red,with rough yellowish spots, an
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