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tree is now standing. It is an excellent early winter 

 fruit, much admired for its tender, mild, juicy, and 

 agreeable properties ; the size is small, the form round, 

 the stalk of singular appearance, from a fleshy protu- 

 berance of the neighbouring part, resembling an aqui- 

 line nose, whence the apple derives its name the 

 skin is rough, the colour yellow, with black clouds 

 and spots the tree is of handsome and vigorous 

 growth, with long shoots, and great fruitfulness : it is 

 in every respect deserving of extensive cultivation. 



NO. 55. CATHEAD. 



This is a very large round apple ; flattened at the 

 ends, and deeply hollowed: the stalk is short and 

 thick, so deeply sunk as to be almost imperceptible 

 the colour a greenish yellow, the flesh white: a good 

 apple for cooking and drying, but apt to drop from 

 the tree from its great weight, and deficient in point 

 of richness and flavour. 



NO. 56. NEWARK PIPPIN. 



Called the French Pippin in East- Jersey ; and in 

 other places denominated the yellow Pippin: this 



apple, on young trees, is sometimes large ; it is usu- 



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