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THE APPLE. 
Campfield. Coxe. 
Newark Sweeting. Sweet Maiden’s Blush. 
Another 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. 
Romanite 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 
round. Skin dull red, dotted with white specks, and obscurelv 
