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ware, and was called after a farmer who raised it."" 

 (Mease,) 



75. Vanwinkle, or granniwinkle, c. "Js a large, red, 

 and very sweet apple ; rich taste, and fine flavour : 

 ripe about the middle of October, when the fruit falls 

 and decays so rapidly that it is difficult to preserve 

 the apple till the proper time for making first rate ci- 

 der. These apples answer best, when mixed with 

 half of their quantity of the Harrison apple. Cider 

 made from this apple alone, resembles unfermented 

 metheglin, and must remain in the barrel until the 

 next summer, when it will fine. The tree originated 

 in the orchard of Thomas Williams, deceased, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Hillyes, of Orange ; but Mr. John Ogden, 

 of Newark, says, he was told the first graft was taken 

 from a tree belonging to an old lady, Mrs. Van Win- 

 kle Poveshon." (Mease.) 



76. Wine apple, c. "An uncommonly large, fair, 

 handsome, red apple. The form is round ; flat at the 

 ends : the skin is a lively red, streaked and spotted 

 with a small portion of yellow ; the stalk end frequent^ 

 Jy of a russet colour; both ends deeply indented; 

 the stalk very short : the taste is rich and pleasant ; 

 an admired table fruit, and excellent for cooking, as 

 well as for cider : it ripens in October, and keeps well 

 through the fall and winter. The tree is uncommon- 

 ly large and handsome ; the leaves small ; it bears a- 

 bundantly ; from its spreading form it does not require 

 much trimming : it is probably as saleable an apple as 

 any sold in the Philadelphia market. In the state 

 and county of Delaware, it is called the Hays winter : 

 and in one place in New-Jersey, the fine winter, and 

 large winter red. f have been informed, that the o- 

 riginal cultivator of this apple made admirable cider, 

 by throwing about one shovel full of sandy loam into 

 a pressing, which had an effect in lessening the acidi- 

 ty, and made a clear, sweet liquor, by this novel mode 

 of fining."' (Coxe.) 



