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short, deeply inserted. Calyx in a round, rather deep basin. 

 Flesh yellow, firm, juicy and rich, becoming tender and 

 sprightly in the spring. 



178. HARRISON. Coxe. 



New- Jersey is the most celebrated cider making district in 

 America, and this apple, which originated in Essex county, of 

 that state, has long enjoyed the highest reputation as a cider 

 fruit. Ten bushels of the apples make a barrel of cider. The 

 tree grows thriftily, and bears very large crops. 



Fruit medium size, ovate or roundish-oblong. Skin yellow, 

 with roughish, distinct black specks. Stem one inch, or more, 

 long. Flesh yellow, rather dry and tough, but with a rich fla- 

 vour, producing a high coloured cider, of great body. The 

 fruit is very free from rot, falls easily from the tree about the 

 first of November, and keeps well. The best cider of this va- 

 riety, is worth from six to ten dollars a barrel, in New- York. 



179. HEWE'S VIRGINIA CRAB. Coxe. 



The Virginia Crab makes a very high flavoured dry cider, 

 which, by connoisseurs, is thought unsurpassed in flavour by 

 any other, and retains its soundness a long time. It is a pro- 

 digious bearer, and the tree is very hardy, though of small size. 



Fruit quite small, about an inch and a half in diameter, nearly 

 round. Skin dull red, dotted with white specks, and obscurely 

 streaked with greenish-yellow. Stalk long and slender. Flesh 

 fibrous, with an acid, rough, and astringent flavour, and when 

 ground, runs clear and limpid from the press, and ferments 

 very slowly. The Virginia Crab is often mixed with rich pulpy 

 apples, to which it imparts a good deal of its fine quality. 



The ROANE'S WHITE CRAB is a sub- variety of the 

 about the same size, with a yellow skin. It makes a rich, 

 strong, bright liquor, and keeps throughout the summer, in a 

 well-bunged cask, perfectly sweet. 



180. HAGLOE CRAB. Coxe. 

 HagloeCrab. land? Thomp.? 



The Hagloe Crab is one of the best summer cooking apples, 

 and the flavour is pleasant, as a dessert fruit. As a cider fruit, 

 it is perhaps unequalled, the specific gravity of the must being 

 1081, and the liquor which it makes is exceedingly rich and 

 high flavoured. 



Fruit below medium size, roundish, flattened, streaked with 

 red. Stalk large and short. Flesh very soft and woolly, with 



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