
          130                                                  
No 30
Wine Apple

A very large and uncommonly fair and beautiful fruit of a red colour* a rich &

[margin insert begins] * streaked & mixed                     
with a small portion            
of yellow with 
a few white spots.     
The stalk end      
remarkable for being    
of a perfect color about
one inch in Diameter    
and then changing         
to the red.  Both the       
stalk and blossom          
ends are remarkably     
and deeply                        
hollowed.  The                 
stalk uncommonly short. [margin insert ends]

pleasant taste and equally well suited     
to culinary purposes [illegible] dessert and
for liquor.  The tree grows very tall straight large  & handsome
both in the nursery and orchard.
<s> Is is more uniformly a good bearer
than any other apple.</s> It bears sometimes
in the same extreuse profusion with 
some other fruits.  It is in perfection
in November and keeps well through the fall
and Winter.  The growth of the tree is
open and spreading, requiring but
little trimming and is particularly
remarkable for the union of a very
small leaf with a very large fruit.
In Delaware State it is called the Hays's Winter
I have this year (1809) had several trees so loaded
as to lose large limbs from the weight of fruit.
I think it may be considered as valuable an apple
as I know, particularly for market.

[sketch of apple]
        