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the tree grows very straight, with upright branches, 

 and is a great bearer. It is celebrated for making 

 fine early cider in Essex county New- Jersey, where 

 it was first cultivated, and derives its name from the 

 family who brought it into notice, . 



yO. IS. STYRE. 



This is the most celebrated and extensively culti- 

 vated cider apple in England; and is also a good 

 eating apple : the size is above middling, the colour 

 of a pale yellowish white ; the flesh is firm, and when 

 fully ripe, of a fine flavour: the cider when produced 

 from a light rich soil, is rich, highly flavoured and of 

 a good body ; its price in England is frequently four 

 fold that of common sale cider the fruit is pale 

 rinded, but produces a high coloured liquor. The 

 tree is of a singularly beautiful growth^ remarkably 

 beesom-headed, throwing out numerous straight lux- 

 uriant shoots, growing upwards from the crown, in 

 the form of a willow pollard, running much to wood, 

 and in deep soils, growing to a great size before it be r 

 comes fruitful :. it suits sandy ground : by the end of 

 September it is ripe in England, generally the mid- 

 dle of October is in common years the time of gather- 

 ing by Mr. Knights experiments, the must out- 

 weighed all others except that of a new variety, pro- 



