TWO NEW APPLES. 



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to our notice, a couple of years ago, by the 

 Rev. H. S. Ramsdell, of Thompson, Con- 

 necticut, an enthusiastic cultivator of fruit. 

 We also received specimens again last au- 

 tumn, which we kept till March. Mr. 

 Ramsdell informs us that the original tree, 

 now dead, stood upon a farm in Wood- 

 stock, Ct., in the midst of a " cider or- 

 chard," all seedling trees. This orchard 

 was planted about 70 years ago, but it is 

 now uncertain by whom, as the property 

 changed owners several times. One of 

 the owners, Mr. John Martin, about thirty 

 years since, presented grafts of the apple 

 in question to his neighbor. Major John 

 McClellan. With these grafts, the latter 

 immediately produced a young tree which 

 has been in constant bearing twenty years, 

 and is the oldest tree of the kind now in 

 existence. Very soon after Mr. Maktin 

 presented the variety, as something worthy 

 of cultivation, to Major McClellan, he sold 

 the farm on which the original tree stood, 

 and it was cut down 

 by the purchaser. 



" Major McClel- 

 lan," as Mr. Rams- 

 dell informs us, 

 considers this varie- 

 ty as good a bearer 

 as the Rhode Island 

 Greening and Hox- 

 hury Russet. Indeed 

 in his soil " it has 

 borne good crops in 

 seasons when these 

 varieties have fail- 

 ed. I have also 

 carefully watched it 

 for the last few 

 years, and find that 

 it gives crops of fine 



fruit when the usual apple crop is exceed- 

 ingly small. Major McClellan has a 

 number of small trees, each of which bore 

 from one-half a bushel to a bushel last 

 year, which proves that it also comes early 

 into a productive state. The fruit is now 

 known and much sought after here, as the 

 ' McClellan Apple,' and taking into ac- 

 count its beauty, size, flavor and produc- 

 tiveness, I do not know its equal among 

 apples of the same season. The trees in 

 the nursery are of moderate growth." 



II. THE IIAWLEY apple. 



A remarkably fine autumn apple, a na- 

 tive of Columbia county, N. Y. ; large, 

 handsome, productive, and among the finest 

 flavored autumn varieties that we have yet 

 tasted. It perhaps more nearly resembles 

 in flavor that fine old apple, the genuine 

 " Fall Pippin," than any other, though 

 quite distinct in appearance, and more pro- 

 ductive in the orchard. 



Fruit large, roundish, and varying in out- 



Fis. 0. The HawUy Apple. 



