
          156                                                               No 56

Flushing Spitzemberg [Spitzenberg]

[sketch of apple]

The tree resembles the Esopus Spitzenberg, the branches
growing in the same dangling manner. It appears
to be the same fruit with an almost imperceptible difference of color
and same of taste produced by difference of soil &
aspect, The fruit is rather above the midling size
being of an oblong form, smooth skin, of a lively red
with numerous yellow spots of the size of a pins head -
The flesh is rich juicy and yellow, it is an early Winter
apple.  There appears no visible difference between
the color and form of the Flushing and an Esopus sent
to me by Dr Mease who brought it from that place Oct. 1810.

        