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Ingalls. Ml'. Atkins found a tree at Biieksport, seventy or eighty 

 years old, w hich produced tlie same apple, very delicious, and as 

 juicy in June as in March. After exchanging ai)ples, we decided 

 that Mr. Ingalls' apple and the Bucksport and Pope apple were 

 different, though, to settle the matter, we sent specimens to Mr. 

 Charles Downing. He decided, without hesitation, that the Bucks- 

 port and Pope apple was the one so Avell known and so highly 

 esteemed in Massachusetts as the INIassachusetts Golden Kusset, 

 the true name of which is Hunt Russet, which originated in the 

 Hunt family, in Concord, Mass., two hundred years ago. Mr. 

 Ingalls' apple, he thinks, is the American Golden Russet, known 

 elsewhere as Sheepnose and Bullock's Pippin. Mr. Downing remarks 

 that he thinks his late brother (A. J. Downing) made a mistake in 

 calling it "American Golden Russet," as it has led to great 

 confusion. 



In correspondence with Mr. Cole, of the firm of Hall & Cole, 

 extensive dealers in apples in Boston, he advises Mr. Atkins and 

 myself to drop all russets but the Roxbury, as the American Golden, 

 he says, "is almost sweet, tough, tasteless, miserable;" but in 

 condemning all Golden Russets, he excepts " the old-timer, grown 

 here in Massachusetts, which has a red cheek, and is as fine eating 

 as need be." This is the Hunt Russet. Evidently, Mr. Cole has 

 not seen the genuine American Golden, or Sheepnose. 



I should add that I have ever}' 3'ear exhibited a small round 

 apple, which is entirely russet, as the American Golden. This, I 

 supposed, might be the English Golden ; but Miss Alice Foster 

 informs me that, as far as she knows, it originated with Dr. Ford 

 of Gardiner, and that Mr. Downing could not identify it. Our 

 late associate. Friend Taylor, raised the same apple and called it 

 American Golden. It is a nice apple in December and January*, 

 and a most profuse bearer alternate years. 



R. H. Gardiner. 

 Oaklands, August 28. 



