_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.