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with a little linseed oil, so as to make it thin enough ; pull this 

 wick through the fingers and lay it on the sash, then begin to put 

 the glass on top of that and tack them with four tacks, the upper 

 two far enough up to keep the next glass from sliding down. 

 Nothing else is wanted. No rain will come through, and this will 

 hold as long as the house stands, while putty always needs looking 

 after. 



[A new apple was sent me, and I supposed it was the Missouri 

 Pippin : This letter gives the history of it. It seems a very de- 

 sirable variety. — Secretary.] 



ToLOifA, Mo., Dec. 6th, 1884. 

 M)\ L. A. Goodman : 



Dear Sir : — Tlie apples in this bucket are of that variety 

 that I sent you samples of by mail. You said in your letter that 

 you thought they were the Missouri Pippin. Now they may be 

 very much like that variety, but that the original tree from which 

 the scions for grafting were taken was a seedling, I have no doubt. 

 Four years ago, when the first one of the two trees came into bear- 

 ing, it had been grafted by my father. I sent samjales of the ap- 

 ple to Thomas Meehan, editor of The Gardener's Monthly, to know 

 how he liked the apple, and that I thought that it was a seedling. 

 He said that he thought they were Esopus Spitsonburg ; the little 

 difference between those sent to him and tliose grown east, might 

 be caused by soil and climate. One year later the other tree 

 came into bearing. This one had been taken up a sprout from the 

 roots of the original tree, and the apples are the same as those on 

 the tree that had been grafted ; and the old orchard that was on 

 the place when my father bought and moved on it, about twenty- 

 seven years ago, contained thirty or forty trees all seedlings, judging 

 from the thorny growth and the quality of the fruit. Only three 

 trees bore good fruit in the orchard, so the chances for these 

 apples sent, to be a new variety, seem good ; and that the two trees 

 I have in bearing, one a sprout taken from the roots of the old tree 

 and one grafted and bearing the same fruit, seems to me proof that 

 it is a seedling. Last year I sent samples to the editor of the Rural 

 New Yorker, who simply said did I think them better than the 

 Baldwin? Well, I have never seen a Baldwin, and cannot say any- 

 thing about that variety. I hope you will be able to select enough 

 nice specimens out of the lot sent you to make a good showing for 

 that variety ; we have kept apples of this variety as late as the first 

 of May. 



