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No 148

Cockagee (English & Irish Cyder)

Above the middle size; greenish white,
with an orange blush; well fleshed, and
highly flavored. - Marshall. p. 255.
Yellow spotted with red & brown, rough acrid
flavor, makes a smart Cyder, fermentation
particularly volatile. vid.

[sketch of apple]

1817
A greenish white with an Orange cheek, the size
middling, the form flat, the stem short and planted
in a deep hollow, the crown hollow, the skin spotted with
red and brown.

1820
Sept 12.
This apple has this year attained to a much larger
size than in former years. Its appearance & other
qualities accord with Marshalls description of the
Cockagee above. It falls at this season and will
be too early for a valuable cider apple, of which it
appears to possess the characteristics
        