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Virginia Gazette<br />

Williamsburg, Virginia, November 4, 1763<br />

To be SOLD by THOMAS SORSBY,<br />

Near Cabin Point, in Surry County,<br />

SUNDRY kinds of the choicest<br />

And best APPLE TREES, viz.<br />

Best cheese apple [Malus pumila ‘Cheese’]<br />

long stems<br />

Pamunkey<br />

Eppes<br />

Newtown pippins<br />

Bray’s white apples<br />

Clark’s pearmains,<br />

Lightfoot’s Father Abrahams<br />

Sorsby’s Father Abrahams<br />

Lightfoot’s Hughes<br />

Sorsby’s Hughes<br />

Ellis’s Hughes<br />

New-York Yellow apples<br />

Golden russeteens<br />

Westbrook’s Sammons’s<br />

horse apples<br />

royal pearmains<br />

a choice red apple<br />

best May apples<br />

Sally Gray’s apple<br />

Old England apple<br />

green apple<br />

Harvey’s apple<br />

peach trees [Prunus persica]<br />

cherry trees [Prunus avium and cerasus]<br />

Thomas Sorsby<br />

1763<br />

Virginia<br />

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