THE APPLE. 
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the red, on the shady side of the fruit, and rays of the same 
around the stalk. Calyx quite small, set in a narrow, shallow. 
plaited basin. Stalk half an inch long, in a shallow cavity. 
Flesh, greenish-white, exceedingly tender, juicy and crisp, with 
a delicious, sprightly, agreeably perfumed flavour. Keeps with- 
out shrivelling, or losing its flavour, till May. 
Swaar. Coxe. Floy. Tliomp. 
This is a truly noble American fruit, produced by the Dutch 
settlers on the Hudson, near Esopus, and so termed, from its 
unusual weight, this word, in the low Dutch, meaning heavy. 
It requires a deep, rich, sandy loam, to bring it to perfection, 
and, in its native soils, we have seen it twelve inches in circum- 
ference, and of a deep golden yellow colour. It is one of the 
finest flavoured apples in America, and deserves extensive cul- 
tivation, in all favourable positions, though it does not succeed 
well in damp or cold soils. 
Fruit large, regularly formed, roundish. Skin greenish-yel- 
low when first gathered, but when entirely ripe, of a fine, dead 
gold colour, dotted with numerous distinct brown specks, and 
sometimes faintly marbled with gray russet on the side, and 
round the stalk. Stalk slender, three fourths of an inch long 
