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No 122

Timothy Matlacks }
No 5 Cider fruit      }

Winesap

This much admired Cider Apple is by the
best Judges ranked in Pennsylvania and West
Jersey nex to the Crab in making the strongest
and best flavored liquor.  The fruit is of a
dark red color a little streaked with some yellow smooth and handsome.
The tree is remarkably productive and in early year the fruit hangs
late and should be gathered in November and 
housed several weeks before it is ground. It is
an uncommonly pleasant Fall eating apple
and is certainly one of the most profitable
apples in our Country.  It is also a hardy tree.
In Dec. 1808 I planted five rows containing 93 trees in the
most sandy part of my Sunbury farm, round which I
put 3 loads of meadow mud just dug - I laid on the surface.
The Winter was very severe and the latter part of 
the Summer of 1809 singularly dry.  The growth of the tree
is stragling and when full of fruit is very drooping.
The stalk is pretty long - the flesh is [illegible] yellow.
both ends are deeply hollowed.

[sketch of apple]

        