The tree is very vigorous, and only too productive.
Fruit medium, regular, oblate, or roundish; Surface smooth, green, partially covered with mixed and striped dull red.
Basin regular, wide; Eye medium, closed.
Cavity regular, acute; Stem slender, medium to short.
Core regular, closed, clasping; Seeds few, large, dark; flesh breaking, firm; Mild sub-acid, almost sweet; December until March.
Jefferies.
Fig. 97.—JEFFERIES.
This delicious autumn apple originated in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was first described by the ad-interim committee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; also in the Farm Journal, for 1853, by David Townsend, of Westchester, Pa.
Tree healthy, sufficiently vigorous, shoots slender, foliage bright green; productive, early bearer.