180 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SOME OF THE NEWER VARIETIES OF APPLES AND THEIR 



VALUE FOR PROPAGATION. 



BY F. LIONBERGER, NEW FLORENCE. 



There seems to be quite a number of very fine seedling apples in 

 this county, which in my opinion are quite valuable for propagation.. 

 The first I will mention is Smiley's Red, also called Thill's Favorite by a 

 few. The apples are medium to large, nearly red, unsurpassed for de- 

 sert, cooking and evaporating. A seedling that originated in the north- 

 ern part of this county with Col. Smily and was first brought to notice 

 by Mr. Thill Nichols, a local nurserj'-man. The trees are upright grow- 

 ers, very hardy and productive. Lucy Pew is another fine apple that 

 originate, with a Mr. Pew of this county. The apples are medium to- 

 large, roundish, greenish yellow, splashed with red, nearly red when 

 fully ripe, flesh white, sprightly sub-acid, calix closed, stem short, basin 

 rather deep and well formed, cavity deep, quality first rate. Trees. 

 hardy, upright, leaf of a yellow tint. They leaf out very early in the 

 spring, and are inclined to overbear. I consider this a very valuable- 

 apple, late fall. 



Next to these I will mention the Logan apples, as I will call them. 

 In the year of 1806 and 1807 one Jonathan Bryan brought a quart of 

 apple seeds from Fleemen county, Kentucky, and planted them in 

 the southern part of this county (now Warren county). Out of these 

 seeds four valuable varieties were produced, which have never before- 

 been brought to notice. 



The first I will mention is the 



Logan. — The original tree is still standing and is in perfect health 

 yet, good for many years more. It is now about 49 years old, and the 

 trunk has a circumference of nine feet, while the circumference of the 

 top is about 180 feet. It may be called quite a historical tree, when I 

 mention that it stands in the neighborhood where Uaniel Boojae used to 

 live, and as he (Daniel Boone) died at a much later date, ir is a well 

 established fact that he has eaten apples from that tree. The apples 

 are medium to large, rounded, nearly red. The first apples always get 

 ripe in wheat harvest and then continue to ripen gradually until the 

 last of September. I have this fall picked apples from the tree a& 



