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Account of the Virginia Cyder Apple, called Gloucester 

 White , by James Mease , M. D. 



Read July 1814. 



Having heard from William Coxe, Esq. a very favour- 

 able account of a cyder apple in Virginia, which went 

 by the name of Gloucester White, Robertson, or Talia- 

 fero apple, and being told by him that Mr. Jefferson 

 could give some information concerning its origin, I wrote 

 to him for it ; and deeming also the history of the Hugh's 

 crab (a cyder apple of more general note), well worthy 

 of inquiry, I requested him to favour me with such facts 

 as he possessed respecting it. The following was his 

 reply, 



Monticello, June 29, 1814. 



Dear Sir, 



On my return home after an absence of five weeks, I 

 find here your letter of 24th May. Of the history of the 

 Hugh's crab apple, I can furnish nothing more than that 

 1 remember it well upwards of 60 years ago, and that it 

 was then a common apple on James' river. Of the other 

 apple after which you inquire, I happen to know the ori- 

 gin. It is not a crab, but a seedling which grew alone in 



