![]() ![]() it obtained its name from a family in Essex County New-Jersey, where it originated, and is very extensively cultivated. ![]() The tree is of strong and vigorous growth, throwing out numerous suckers from the limbs- the wood is hard. The trees are certain bearers the apples fall about the first of November they are below middling size, and remarkably free from rot ripen at that time, but will keep well when housed. This is the most celebrated of the cider apples of Newark in New-Jersey: it is cultivated in high perfection, and to a great extent in that neighbourhood, particularly on the Orange mountain the shape is rather long, and pointed towards the crown - the stalk long hence often called the long stem - the ends are deeply hollowed the skin is yellow, with many black spots, which gives a rough-ness to the touch: the flesh is rich, yellow, firm and tough the taste pleasant and sprightly, but rather dry - it produces a high coloured, rich, and sweet cider of great strength, commanding a high price in New York, frequently ten dollars and upwards per barrel when fined for bottling. William Coxe, the first American to publish an illustrated book on the already enormous variety of fruits being grown in North America following the American Revolution, described the Harrison Cider Apple in 1817: Illustration of Harrison and Campfield cider apples ![]()
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