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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Smith's. 



SMITH'S CIDER. 



Origin Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where it still con- 

 tinues a favorite variety. Its cultivation has extended 

 widely to the westward, giving great satisfaction as a 

 market fruit, for culinary purposes, but cannot be recom- 

 mended for table. 



Tree vigorous, hardy, productive, an early bearer ; 

 Limbs straggling, shoots rather slender, light olive ; Foli- 

 age large, light green. 



Fruit medium to large, round, varying from flattened to 

 elongated, mostly regular, sometimes lop-sided ; Surface 



Fig. 232. SMITH'S. 



smooth, pale yellow, covered with mixed light red, splash- 

 ed indistinctly with bright carmine, beautiful ; Dots dis- 

 tinct, rather large, light gray. 



