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, THE WOODCOCK. 
The Woodcock is frequently mentioned by the writers on 
orchards of the 17th century as a cider apple of great ex¬ 
cellence; and subsequent experience has justified the cha¬ 
racter, Avhich they have given of it. But the variety has 
apparently survived the period allotted it by nature, and, 
like every other of equal age, it has long ceased to deserve 
the attention of the planter. 
The Woodcock is generally supposed to have derived its 
name from an imaginary resemblance of the form of the 
fruit and fruit-stalk, in some instances, to the head and beak 
of a woodcock; but it may possibly have been so called 
from the name of the person who raised it from seed. The 
specific gravity of its juice is about 1073. 
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