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Cumberland Spice Apple

from Greenwich Cumberland County New Jersey.
They are there considered superior to any Fall or
and early Winter Apple; They keep pretty well
especially if they will; but then are not quite
so good. The trees are thrifty and great bearers,
originated in Greenwich Cumberland County.
It is a large and handsome yellow Apple,
of an oblong form diminishing towards the
blossom end.  It has something of the appearance
of the yellow Bellflower, but is more regular in its form
and has not any of the deep red spots so common in 
the Bellflower.  The stalk is singularly short and
thick and appears to fill up almost the whole of the
cavity in which it is inserted. The flesh is white mild
tender and remarkably easy of digestion when eaten.
On the 6th December I received a box of them in high
perfection.  The pericarpum or seed vessel is remarkably
large and hollow. The seeds are very large.
The skin is filled with a number of black cloudy spots
particularly near the stalk end

[sketch of apple]

I engrafted from scions April 1811 recd [received] from Mr Richard Wood
one only grew on Rosanna Farm.  On the 8 : April 1813 engrafted
12 trees with a number of grafts, eleven in West orchard Sunbury & 1 in Peach
orchard East of house.
        