CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT 



LIST OF APPLES 



HELD IN MOST ESTIMATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



An accurate technical list of the various sorts of ap- 

 ples known in the United States, would be consider- 

 d an acquisition of importance ; but their names are 

 derived from such various and capricious causes or in- 

 cidents, that a correct list cannot be easily accomplish- 

 ed ; some have received names descriptive of the 

 fruit, and others are derived from the places where 

 they have been first found, or from the original culti- 

 vator. But a serious misfortune is, in several instan- 

 ces the same fruit bears many different namea in dif- 

 ferent places ; which subjects the planter to much in- 

 convenience, as it not unfrequently happens, that 

 grafts of a supposed new variety are obtained from a 

 distance, under a different name, which eventually 

 prove to produce the same kind of fruit, with which 

 his orchard already abounds. It is very desirable 

 that fruit should be known by the same name in all 

 places ; with this view it will be useful when writing 

 or speaking of any fruit, to give an accurate descrip- 

 tion of it and its qualities, with the tree by which it is 

 produced. By such means, different varieties may 

 be identified, and in due time a catalogue may be form- 

 ed, much to the convenience and satisfaction of every 

 cultivator. William Coxe, esquire, of Burlington, 

 New-Jersey, possesses the most extensive orchard and 

 cider establishment, it is presumed, in the United 

 States, consisting of more than four thousand apple 

 trees, besides other fruit. This gentleman has favour- 

 ed the publick with a view of the cultivation of fruit 

 trees, &c. which contains a descriptive list of one hun- 

 dred and thirty-three varieties of apples, which are 



