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housed. The tree is of strong and vigorous growth, 

 throwing out numerous suckers from the limbs the 

 wood is hard ten bushels are required for a barrel 

 of cider one barrel will produce fourteen quarts of 

 distilled spirits : it obtained its name from a family in 

 Essex county New-Jersey, where it originated, and 

 is very extensively cultivated. One tree of this kind 

 this year, in an orchard in IJssex county, produced 

 upwards of 100 bushels, 87 of which were gathered 

 when fully ripe, the others were fallen fruit, careful- 

 ly measured to ascertain the quantity. 



NO. 84. CAMPFIELD, OR NEWARK SWEETING. 



This apple is next in reputation as a cider fruit to 

 the Harrison ; and is usually mixed with that apple in 

 ejqual portions when ground : the size is middling, 

 the skin is smooth and red, with small indistinct yel- 

 low spots, the side from the sun a greenish yellow : 

 the flesh is white, firm, sweet and rich ; the form is 

 round, flattened, and somewhat sunk at the ends the 

 cider is very strong and highly flavoured, yielding 

 fourteen quarts of spirit from a barrel the price of 

 the cider, about a dollar per barrel less than the Har- 

 rison. The form of the tree is tall, with straight limbs, 

 inclining upwards ; the size large, the growth very vig- 

 orous, the wood hard, and of uncommon fruitfulnessj 



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