16.Bruce Fish, Becky Fish, and Harold Bloom, Bloom’s BioCritiques: Robert Frost (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2002), p. 46.
17.Robert Faggen, ed., The Notebooks of Robert Frost (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006), p. 379.
18.John Evangelist Walsh, Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost 1912–1915 (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988), p. 225.
19.Undated letter from Robert Frost to Fred Abbey of Gardenside Nurseries, in the Robert Frost Collection, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
20.Unsigned and undated handwritten list of apples grafted in June 1957, possibly in Robert Frost’s handwriting, in the Robert Frost Collection, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
21.Calhoun, Old Southern Apples, p. 105.
22.Letter from Frost to Fred Abbey.
23.Faggen, Notebooks of Robert Frost, p. 447.
24.Undated letter from Robert Frost to Ira Glackens, in the Robert Frost Collection, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
THE GHOST ORCHARD
1.Eileen Woodhead, Early Canadian Gardening: An 1827 Nursery Catalogue (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998), pp. 26–27.
2.Ibid., p. 26.
3.Ibid, p. 27.
4.The architect John Nash first used the Italianate style in England in 1802. It moved to North America in the 1840s, with many examples being built along the eastern coast of the United States.
5.State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania, A List of Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums and Cherries, p. 46.
6.Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923), p. 39.
7.Ibid., p. 38.
8.Wilfrid Mellers, “Modernism’s Child,” New Republic, vol. 204, no. 14 (April 8, 1991): p. 39.
9.The English cider known as scrumpy comes from this term. It’s a lethally potent cider made from small or discarded apples, and it has a stronger alcohol content than most commercially produced ciders.
A GLOSSARY OF LOST APPLES
1.Calhoun, Old Southern Apples, p. 178.
2.The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, vol. 21 (New York: Geo. E. and F. W. Woodward, 1866), p. 359.
3.William Henry Ragan, Nomenclature of the Apple: A Catalogue of the Known Varieties Referred to in American Publications from 1804 to 1904 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905), p. 110.
4.Ibid., p. 139.
5.Calhoun, Old Southern Apples, p. 227.
6.Ibid., p. 229.
7.Ibid., p. 230.
8.Ibid., p. 252.
9.Ibid., p. 267.
10.Ibid., p. 269.
11.Downing and Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, p. 385.
12.Amos Delos Gridley, History of the Town of Kirkland, New York (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), p. 154.
13.Calhoun, Old Southern Apples, p. 292.
14.Ibid., p. 293.
15.Ibid., p. 301.
PHOTO SECTION
Deborah Griscom Passmore, Malus domestica, Buff, 1900.
Deborah Griscom Passmore, Malus domestica, Seneca Favorite, 1904.
Ellen Isham Schutt, Malus domestica, Indian Favorite, 1904.
Royal Charles Steadman, Malus domestica, Nickajack, 1923.
Ellen Isham Schutt, Malus domestic, Limbertwig, 1914.
Bertha Heiges, Malus domestica, Father Abraham, 1899.
Bertha Heiges, Malus domestica, Vandiver, 1905.
Deborah Griscom Passmore, Malus domestica, Golden Russet, 1905.
Royal Charles Steadman, Malus domestica, Sweet Bough, 1919.
Bertha Heiges, Malus domestica, Red Astrachan, 1903.
Amanda Almira Newton, Malus domestica, Porter, 1912.
Deborah Griscom Passmore, Malus domestica, Quince, 1894.
Ellen Isham Schutt, Malus domestica, Yellow Transparent, 1910.
Amanda Almira Newton, Malus domestica, Pumpkin Sweet, 1912.
Amanda Almira Newton, Malus domestica, Canada Reinette, 1915.
Deborah Griscom Passmore, Malus domestica, St. Lawrence, 1892.
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