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ARBORICULTURAL GOSSIP. 



line in diffbrent specimens, from a slightly 

 flattened form to one somewhat conical. 

 Its surface is smooth^ and slightly oily ; 

 the core is large and hollow, in which the 

 seeds rattle. The skin is pale yellowish- 

 green at first, becoming pale golden yellow 

 at maturity, and sprinkled with a few scat- 

 tered brown dots. Stalk slender, from 

 three-fourths to an inch long, planted in a 

 deep and wide cavity, (from which often 

 extends a faint mark or line each w^ay, 

 halving the fruit,) Calyx rather small, 

 partly closed, set in a slightly plaited ba- 

 sin of moderate depth. Flesh yellowish- 

 white, fine-grained, tender, with a rich 

 sub-acid flavor. Season, October and No- 

 vember. The tree is of moderate growth 

 in the nursery, but in the orchard forms a 

 well shaped, spreading head, and bears 

 good crops annually. 



Gen. E. W, Leavenworth, of Syracuse, 

 N. Y., had the kindness, last autumn, to 

 make us acquainted with this valuable 

 fruit, which is now rapidly becoming a fa- 

 vorite in this State. In a letter from him, 

 now before us, he gives the following au- 

 thentic account of its origin : 



" The history of this tree, is substantial- 

 ly as follows : 



"Matthew Hawley removed from Old 

 Milford, in Connecticut, to New-Canaan, in 



Columbia county, New-York, nearly a cen- 

 tury ago. As usual, at that time, with 

 emigrating settlers, he took with him ap- 

 ple seeds, from which he raised and planted 

 an orchard of seedling trees on his farm, 

 in Canaan. Among them, was the tree in 

 question. The farm afterwards passed to 

 his son Daniel, and is now owned by Tho- 

 mas Hawley, the son of Daniel Hawley. 

 The fruit early attracted the attention of 

 amateurs, and for forty years past, it has 

 been more or less propagated, both there 

 and elsewhere. 



" It is now cultivated near Canaan Four 

 Corners, by Messrs. Thomas Hawley, Ed- 

 win B. Williams, Jas. Hamilton, and va- 

 rious others, as well as by several orchard- 

 ists in Onondaga and Cayuga counties. 

 The original tree has been dead some ten 

 or twelve years. 



" I am informed that the trees grow large 

 and strong, and bear abundant crops every 

 year. 



" A person named Douse, lived on a farm 

 near Mr. Hawley's, some forty years since, 

 and had one or more of these trees on his 

 farm, taken from the Hawley tree. Hence 

 the name of Douse, or Dow's apple, which 

 it bears in some places. 

 Your ob't servant, 



E. W. Leavenworth." 



ARBORICULTURAIi GOSSIP. 



BY J. JAY SMITH. PHILADELPHIA. 



I AM delighted to see influences from the 

 most influential quarter — a journal with the 

 circulation of the Horticulturist — brought 

 to bear on the tree-planting taste of the 

 country at large. I know that just now al- 

 most the whole country is alive with or- 



chard and fruit garden planting — and that 

 fruit trees are the theme that occupy the 

 great mass of horticultural readers. This, 

 however, is only the necessary first step, 

 and the extensive collection and planting of 

 all fine and rare ornamental trees, Cedars 



