The Jefferis Apple
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1949.4.4.103Abstract
The original Jefferis apple tree was a seedlings on the farm of Isaac Jefferis or Jefferies (the name is variously spclled,) Newlin township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was first exhibited a century ago (in 1848) before the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. This organization awarded it a premium as the best seedling apple exhibited that year. In the following year it was included by J. J. Thomas in a new edition of his "American Fruit Culturist,,' and he said of it, "remarkably tender and juicy, flavor very pleasant." This brought the apple to the attention of a wider audience. Downing in his 1859 edition of "Fruit and Fruit Trees of America", described it, "flesh white, tender, juicy, with a rich mild subacid flavor," and included a line drawing of the fruit.
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