118 ANNUAL REPORT. 



''In the winter of 1872, I bought a barrel of apples of Mr. 

 Harroon, south of Dover; you may know where he lived; he had 

 a large orchard of good fruit. The barrel I had wavS the Talman 

 Sweets and Gray Eussets, mixed. My wife saved quite a quan- 

 tity of the seeds, planted them in a box of earth and in the 

 spring of 1873 I transplanted the pips in the best of earth; most 

 of them did not survive the rigors of the cold winters, but four 

 trees came out all right. One bore fine apj)les the seventh year, 

 none since. The best one had blossoms the eighth year, bore a 

 few apples the ninth; in 1882 bore one and one half bushels of 

 as handsome apples as I ever saw, very large, red, shaped like 

 the Harvey, flat at the poles, not too much so. One other bore 

 the same year one pail full, good sized, longer, color like the 

 Ehode Island Greening. The best tree in full bearing was the 

 admiration of all that saw it, and there were many called to see 

 the sight. The fruit is flavored like the Baldwin; it is not a 

 winter apple but late fall. Everyone that saw it wanted grafts 

 from it. Had I kept the farm should have used the grafts ex- 

 tensively. I do not know what the fruit was last year; Mr. liart 

 will inform you. 



"The apple I call 'Brett's Seedling' (mark this,) nevershowed 

 the least suffering from any winter since it was a pip; examine 

 the body and you Avill see the bark is the right color, perfectly 

 clean. Yours truly, 



C. H. Brett." 



The Waldron seedlings originated in the town of Cascade four 

 miltis west of Rochester by Eobert Waldron, who died the pres- 

 ent month, aged about seventy-five years. I visited him about the 

 first of October; his seedling trees were then well loaded with 

 fruit. He helped me put up a good show for New Orleans and 

 for this meeting. I have never grafted any of these seedlings 

 (from the Fameuse), but believe them worthy of trial. The 

 Forster seedlings that took the first premium at our winter 

 meeting two years ago should claim a share of our attention. 

 Mr. M. W. Cook showed me the fruit and wood of a seedling that he 

 says originated in the township of Rochester and bore very heavily 

 the past season. I should have been glad to have visited this 

 tree so as to give a more full report, but just the particular loca- 

 tion of this wonderful seedling is at present a profound secret. 

 But among the older seedlings of this section of country I find 

 nothing for winter that suits me much better foi- quality, or much 



