A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, and the management of orchards and cider; with accurate descriptions of the most estimable varieties of native and foreign apples, pears, peaches, plums, and (14753748156)
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Title: A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, and the management of orchards and cider; with accurate descriptions of the most estimable varieties of native and foreign apples, pears, peaches, plums, and cherries, cultivated in the middle states of America: illustrated by cuts of two hundred kinds of fruits of the natural size ..
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Coxe, William, 1762-1831. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fruit-culture Fruit
Publisher: Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey and son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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ei B o bf. ci b I?; o 6 jiPPLES. 121 keep in high perfection through the winter, till late inthe spring, especially when they are shrivelled orwilted—^frora their beauty and excellence, they arethe most popular apple in the Pliiladelphia market:the tree grows very large and spreading; it shouldbe trained high, or the limbs will touch the groundwhen in full bearing—it succeeds best on light richsoils. The original tree is said to be now standingon a farm near Crosswicks, Burlington county, N.Jersey, very large and old. NO. 34. WINE APPLE. An uncommonly large, fair, handsome red apple—the form is round, flat at the ends : the skin is a livelyred, streaked and spotted with a small portion ofyellow: the stalk end frequently of a russet colour,both ends deeply indented ; the stalk very short, thetaste is rich and pleasant, an admired table fruit, andexcellent for cooking as well as for cider; it ripensin October, and keeps well through the fall and win-ter. The tree is uncommonly lar
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