226 THE APPLE. 



Campfield. Coxe. 

 Newark Sweeting, Sweet Maiden's Blush. 



Anotlier capital New Jersey cider apple, ranking next to the 

 Harrison. It forms a fine large tree, with straight, spreading 

 limbs, and is very productive. Fine for baking and stock feed- 

 ing. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish, rather flattened. Skin 

 smooth, washed and striped with red, over a greenish-yellow 

 ground. Flesh white, rather dry, firm, rich and sweet. April, 

 May. 



Gilpin. Coxe. Thomp. 



Carthouse. Small Romanite. 

 Eomauite of the West. 



A handsome cider fruit, from Virginia, which is also a very 

 good table fruit from February to May. A very hardy, vigor- 

 ous and fruitful tree. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish-oblong. Skin very smooth 

 and handsome, richly streaked with deep red and yellow. Stalk 

 short, deeply inserted. Calyx in a round, rather deep basin. 

 Flesh yellow, firm, juicy and rich, becoming tender and sprightly 

 in the spring. 



Harrison. Coxe. 



New Jersey is the most celebrated cider making district in 

 America, and this apple, which originated in Essex County, of 

 that State, has long enjoyed the highest reputation as a cider 

 fruit. Ten bushels of the apples make a barrel of cider. The 

 tree grows thriftily, and bears very large crops. 



Fruit medium size, ovate or roundish-oblong. Skin yellow, 

 with roughish, distinct black specks. Stem one inch, or more, 

 long. Flesh yellow, rather dry and tough, but with a rich fla- 

 vour, producing a high coloured cider, of great body. The 

 fruit is very free from rot, falls easily from the tree about the 

 first of November, and keeps well. The best cider of this 

 variety, is worth from six to ten dollars a barrel, in New York. 



Hewe's Virginia Crab. Coxe. 



The Virginia Crab makes a very high flavoured dry cider, 

 which, by connoisseurs, is thought unsurpassed in flavour by 

 any other, and retains its soundness a long time. It is a pro- 

 digious bearer, and the tree is very hardy, though of small 

 size. 



Fruit quite small, about an inch and a half in diameter, nearly 

 ound. Skin dull red, dotted with white specks, and obscurely 



