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Historical. Coxe (i) states that it came from the town of Tewksbury in 

 Hunterdon county, N. J. In 1817 he gave the following excellent description 

 of it. 



"It is a very handsome fair fruit, with more flavour and juiciness than is 

 to be usually found in keeping apples ; I have eaten them in good condition in 

 August of the second year, preserved without particular care, perfectly plump 

 and sound. The size is small; the form round; the skin smooth: the colour 

 yellow, with a bright red cheek the flesh yellow, tolerably juicy and well 

 flavoured with a considerable degree of sprightliness: the tree is of vigorous 

 growth, straight and well formed the fruit hangs late in the autumn." 



Hooper erroneously reported it as identical with Fink and retained Fink 

 as the correct name for the variety (9). Elliott gave Tewksbury Blush as the 

 correct name with Fink's Seedling as a synonym (8), but Warder (n) con- 

 sidered Fink distinct as shown in the following quotation from his description 

 of that variety. " This long keeper was brought before the notice of the Ohio 

 Pomological Society many years ago by Mr. Clarke, of Somerset, Ohio. Mr. 

 Elliott considered it the same as Tewksbury Winter Blush, and introduces 

 Fink's Seedling as a synonym of that variety. Others think it a different fruit, 

 among whom is that practical Pomologist, the Secretary of that association, 

 M. B. Bateham, Esq., who has propagated and planted the trees extensively. 

 It was described as Fink's Seedling in the Ohio Cultivator, May, 1847. At 

 the meeting of 1854, the merits and claims of this variety were freely discussed, 

 and the Society named it the Fink, after admitting that it was an original 

 seedling, as stated by Mr. Fink, in whose seedling orchard it had originated." 



Tewksbury was given a place in the catalogue of the American Pomological 

 Society in 1871 (13) and was dropped from that list in 1890. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit small to nearly medium, uniform in size and shape. Form roundish 

 conic, a little flat at the base, rather symmetrical. Stem medium in length, 

 moderately thick. Cavity acute or acuminate, shallow, rather broad, sym- 

 metrical, slightly russeted. Calyx very small, closed. Basin very small, very 

 shallow and narrow, slightly wrinkled. 



Skin smooth, yellow with pinkish-red blush. Dots many, numerous, small, 

 russet and areolar. 



Calyx tube small, long, narrow, funnel-shape. Stamens median to marginal. 



Core medium in size, axile or nearly so; cells often unsymmetrical, closed 

 or somewhat open; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish ovate, emarginate. 

 Seeds light brown, medium size, narrow, irregular, acute. 



Flesh slightly tinged with yellow, firm, moderately fine, crisp, rather tender, 

 rather juicy, aromatic, sprightly, brisk subacid, good. 



TEXAS. 



REFERENCES, i. Churchill, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 8:355. 1889. 2. Bailey, An. 

 Hort., 1892:247. 3. Beach, Paddock and Close, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 15:274. 

 1896. 4. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 48:58. 1903. 5. Beach and 

 Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui, 248:146. 1904. 6. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 56:242, 

 309. 1905. 



SYNONYM. PRIDE OF TEXAS (i, 2, 3). Pride of Texas (4, 5, 6). 



