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Definition of Northern Spy
1. Noun. Large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Spy
Literary usage of Northern Spy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fruits of America: Containing Richly Colored Figures, and Full by Charles Mason Hovey (1852)
"01 this character is the Northern Spy: in our estimation, it ia surpassed ...
The Northern Spy was raised in the town of East Bloomfield, NY, nearly fifty ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1866)
"At this meeting fine specimens of the Tompkins County King, Northern Spy, Rhode
Island Greening, ... Northern Spy, 5. Primate, 6. Porter, 6. Hubbardston, 6. ..."
3. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1921)
"Seedlings of Northern Spy can not be relied upon as resistant to the woolly ...
The best way to get a start is to buy some Northern Spy trees from some ..."
4. The Commercial Apple Industry of North America by John Clifford Folger, Samuel Mable Thomson (1921)
"The Northern Spy originated at East Bloomfield, New York, in a seedling orchard
planted by Herman Chapin about 1800 and was recognized by the American ..."
5. Prairie Farms and Prairie Folk by Parker Gillmore (1872)
"... Kentucky and Tennessee—Miseries of Civil War—A Mississippi Steamship—An Awkward
Fix— A Northern Spy—A Dangerous Woman—Sail down the ..."
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