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Title: Apple growing in the Pacific Northwest; a condensation of lectures, experiments and discussions
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Portland Young Men's Christian Association
Subjects: Apples Apples Apples
Publisher: Portland, Or.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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origin is credited to the early part of theeighteenth century. It is not clear at this time whether the originaltree was of the green or yellow type, nor has any record of adistinct origin of the two been discovered. Though first grown in commercial orchards in New York, NewJersey and Pennsylvania, the excellent quality of the frnit from someof the Potomac counties of Virginia was noted as early as the timeof Coxe. In Albemarle county, Virginia, where it reached a high degree ofperfection, it became known as the Albemarle Pippin at an earlyday, and was for many years considered a distinct variety of localorigin, and was so propagated. An export trade in the fruit from Albemarle county was inaugu-rated under favorable auspices by a happy circumstance which oc-curred in the first year of the reign of Queen Victoria. The identity of Albemarle and Yellow Newtown seems to havebeen recorded first by the late Franklin Davis in a letter from Staun- VAUIKTIKS AM) K N V I HON M K.NT 63 y Mu-^l
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YoiiUK ai)i)lc; treu in Jlie DaiJt-s district, Ofeyun. Note metliud ot pi-oiiping u)) thelimbs, which originated in this district. ton, Va., which was published in the Hortieiiltiirist in 1857. Since thattime most pomohjgists have accepted their identity, ascribing theslight variations which are observable to local soil or climatic condi-tions. But in the absence of an authentic record of the introductionof Yellow Newtown to Albemarle county, many orchardists in thePiedmont and mountain regions have continued to believe in the Albe-marle as a distinct variety of local origin. Eecent investigation byMessrs. H. L. Lyman and Samuel B. Woods, prominent citizens andfruit-growers of Charlottsville, Va., have resulted in an apparentclearing up of the historical uncertainty and establishing a clear con-nection between the supposed original Albemarle tree and the oldervariety. The Yellow Newtown has for many years been considered the bet-ter apple for exportation, however, and in commercial or

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