SMITH'S CIDER.
Synonyms: Smith's, Fuller, Pennsylvania Cider, Popular Bluff, and Fowler.
Origin, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. This apple is widely grown and much esteemed as a profitable market sort. The tree is a very vigorous, straggling, spreading grower, and productive. Young wood a rich, dark brown. Fruit medium to large, roundish oblate conic, yellow, shaded and striped with red, sparsely covered with gray dots. Stalk slender, of medium length, inserted in a deep, rather narrow cavity. Calyx closed, set in a broad, rather shallow basin. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp, pleasant, mild subacid. Good December to March.
Remarks on the Smith's Cider by members of the State Horticultural Society:
C. C. Cook: I planted Smith's Cider pretty heavily, and now regret it. It blights badly, and the apples fall off. I intend to replace it with York Imperial.
E. J. Holman: It deserves a place in the family orchard, and a small place in the commercial orchard. They are as large as Ben Davis, and as great bearers, but they fall from the tree sooner.
James Sharp: We had 500 Smith's Cider. Nearly all blighted and died; have never paid me.
G. Whiteker: It is a splendid apple, but blights; I think it will not be profitable.
B. F. Smith: We should not drop it from the list; it is a fairly good apple.
MAIDEN'S BLUSH.