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No 46

Browns Winter Apple
shaped and spotted much like the Pearmain
Brown Knight
or
Brownite

A lively bright red apple from Delaware
State.  General Robinson and Mr Brown nurseryman
near Wilmington say it is the best kind of eating
apple in the first part of Winter, and a very good
apple for cooking  from the middle of September
till February, it then becomes mealy.
Considered as the first table apple in
Chester County  This is the Brownite of
Judge Reily as described by Dr Mease in the
Dom.[Domestic] Encyclop. Art. Fruit. Vid Gen.
Robinson letter Jany 19, 1810. The size is midling
the shape rather oblong, a little produced
at the blossom end, the stalk rather long & slender -
The flesh tender delicate and sprightly with a
a flavor and crispness resembling a pearmain

In rich ground they grow a third or fourth larger
than the annexed specimen, which is a small sized
apple. It was taken from one of the first bearing.
        