82 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



1O8. YELLOW NEWTOWN PIPPIN. 



A large, flat fruit, of a bright yellow color, with a faint 

 blush next the sun ; the flesh breaking, juicy, agreeably 

 acid, and fine-flavored. It keeps during the winter. The 

 tree grows more vigorous, and the fruit appears to be in 

 greater esteem about Boston than the green variety. 



SEC TION IV. 



CELEBRATED CIDER APPLES CULTIVATED IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



109. HARRISON. Coxe. 



The most celebrated cider apple of Newark, New Jer- 

 sey, where they make so much cider, and some of the finest 

 in the world. It is cultivated more extensively there, and 

 particularly on the Orange Mountain, than any other 

 apple. The tree is of strong and vigorous growth, the 

 wood hard, a certain bearer, and wonderfully productive. 

 One tree in Essex county, New Jersey, produced one 

 hundred bushels in a year. It requires ten bushels for a 

 barrel of cider, which is so strong, that it will produce 

 fourteen quarts of distilled spirits. The fruit is below 

 medium size, rather long, and contracted towards the 

 crown; stalk very long, (hence often called Long Stem,) 

 deeply indented at the summit and base ; color yellow, 

 covered with many black spots ; flesh yellow, firm, tough ; 

 flavor pleasant and sprightly, but rather dry ; cider rich, 

 sweet, of great strength. The fruit falls about the first of 

 November, is remarkably sound, and will keep well. It 

 originated in Essex county, New Jersey. 



110. TALIAFERO. Hon. J. C. Gray. 



The fruit is the size of a grape shot, or from one to two 

 inches in diameter ; of a white color, streaked with red ; 

 with a sprightly acid, not good for the table, but apparent- 

 ly a very valuable cider fruit. This is understood to be 

 a Virginia fruit, and the apple from which Mr. Jefferson's 

 favorite cider was made. 



