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LIST OF APPLES 



HELD IN MOST ESTIMATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



AN accurate technical list of the various sorts of 

 apples known in the United States, would be con- 

 sidered an acquisition of importance; but their 

 names are derived from such various and capricious 

 causes, or incidents, that a correct list cannot be 

 easily accomplished; some have received names de- 

 scriptive of the fruit, and others are derived from 

 the places where they have been first found, or 

 from the original cultivator. But a serious misfor- 

 tune is, in several instances the same fruit bears 

 many different names in different places; which sub- 

 jects the planter to much inconvenience, as it not 

 unfrequently happens, that grafts of a supposed new 

 variety are obtained from a distance, under a differ- 

 ent name, which eventually prove to produce the 

 same kind of fruit, with which his orchard already 

 abounds. I have this season received grafts from 

 trees, called red queen apple, which, on examining 

 the fruit of the last year, I discovered to be the 

 Baldwin apple. William Coxe, esquire, of Burling- 

 ton, New Jersey, possesses the most extensive or- 

 chard and cider establishment, it is presumed, in 

 the United States, consisting of more than four 

 thousand apple trees, besides other fruit. This 

 gentleman has favoured the publick with a view of 

 the cultivation of fruit trees, &c. which contains a 

 descriptive list of one hundred and thirty-three va- 

 rieties of apples, which are cultivated on his own 

 plantation. To this list may be be added others, 

 in various parts of the union, amounting, probably, 

 to several hundreds. The following is from Dr. 

 Mease's edition Domestick Encyclopedia: "The 

 family of Prince, at Flushing, Long Island, have 

 been many years celebrated for their fine fruit, and 



