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THK .IKIFERSON COUNTY ATrLE. 



AiiofT a voar ago our attention was callci.! to tliis Ajiplc, l>y oiir friend S. AVorden, of 

 Minotto, (.)s\vogo county, N. Y., and last autumn lie sent us a box of specimens, from 

 Avliich wo made the following desciijition : Fruit — medium size, round, regular. 

 Stalk — sliort, set in a deep cavity. Calyx — small, closed, in a deep, smooth basin. 

 Skin — smootli, greenish-yellow, marbled with red and russet on tlie sunny side, run- 

 ning into broken stripes toward the shaded side. Flesh — crisp, juicy, tender, mild 

 subacid, rich and excellent. Season — late autumn and early winter. 



We add the following account 

 of tliis variety, by Hon. Chas. E. 



Clark, of Jefferson county, and / \l /' 



commend this variety to the atten- / . ^ K 



tion of orchardists in Northern 

 Now York: 



"The seed of this Apple was 

 lirought from Connecticut, by the 

 second wife of the late Wm. Hunt- 

 ington, Esq. The nursery was 

 l)lanted on his farm, and the young 

 tree was removed from that nursery 

 in or about the year 1807, to tlie 

 orchard of the late James Wilson, 

 in Rutland Hollow, where the orig- 

 inal tree now stands. The tree is 

 therefore about forty-five years old. 

 It is of thrifty and vigorous growth, 

 an early and great bearer, never failing to be loaded willi fruit every year. Indeed, the 

 symmetry and health of most of the trees i)ro])agated from this, is destroyed by the heavy 

 and crushing loads of fruit they bear. The Apple ripens in October, and keeps well till the 

 first of December, and during two months it is the very best Apple, exceeding in the esti- 

 mation of the Avriter, the Porter^ Sjjy, Sicaar, Baldwin, Greening, or SpitzenhurgTi. It 

 averages three and a quarter inches in diameter from side to side, and two inches from 

 stem to calyx. It is quite fair in its surface, and is exceedingly beautiful. At the blossom 

 and stem ends the cavities are deep and well formed. At the blossom end the color is 

 russet, on a yellow ground, for a quarter of the distance to the stem on one side and three 

 quarters of the distance on the other side; the remainder of the Apple is a rich scarlet, 

 soinetimes in stripes and sometimes in detached fragments or spots, showing a beautiful 

 yellow streak between the spots, ajipearing as though the Apple was originally russet and 

 that it had been painted over with scarlet, and that the growth of the Apple had broken 

 this scarlet coloring and showed the original russet, and very frequently near the stem 

 there is a spot of clear yellow of the size of a sixpence. 



" In shape and color it is most beautiful, and in flavor it is unsurpassed. The skin is thin 

 and tender ; the flesh is exceedingly juicy, a gentle subacid taste, brisk and spicy, and the 

 distinct flavor of the Quince. It is first rate for the table, for cooking, and for cider. 



" Jefferson county has the honor of giving birth to this tree : lience its name. It is 

 in many of the orchards in Paitland and Champion. It sells readily for half a dollar 

 shel, while otlier good common sorts sell for eighteen cents." 



TUE JEFFERSON COLNTY ArPLE. 



