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thus produced was one which bore a large green apple. The scions of this 

 tree were in such demand by the people who stopped there as guests, that 

 the tree died from excessive cutting and exhaustion. The fruit which resulted 

 from grafting with these scions was known by different names in Rhode 

 Island as the 'apple from Green's Inn,' while in adjoining States it was called 

 the ' Green's Inn apple from Rhode Island.' * * * In the town of Foster, 

 upon the farm of Thomas R. Drowne, at Mt. Hygeia, stands an old Rhode 

 Island Greening tree, which is supposed to be nearly 200 years old. * * * 

 This tree, to the knowledge of members of the family now living, has borne 

 uninterruptedly until within a few years. 1 * * * On the farm of Frederick 

 W. Winslow, a few rods southwest of the lime kiln on the northern verge of 

 Fruit Hill, stands a Rhode Island Greening tree, which is locally known as 

 the ' Daughter Tree/ This tree is a limb of the mother tree, which was 

 broken off in the September gale of 1815, and which upon being thrust into 

 the rich moist soil, took root and became an independent tree. The mother 

 tree was planted * * * in 1748. It was, therefore, 141 years old when it 

 was cut down in 1889. * * * Authentic records of trees of this variety 

 that were planted about 150 years ago in the soil of North Providence, on 

 the farm of the late Lemuel Angell, are still in possession of that family. 

 It was introduced into the old Plymouth colony from Newport in 1765; from 

 there (?) it was carried into Ohio in 1796 by General Putnam." 



While we have no record of its earliest introduction into this state it is 

 well known that Rhode Island Greening was pretty widely disseminated in 

 the older settled regions of New York during the eighteenth century. It is 

 O'ften found in the very oldest orchards now in existence in New York and 

 it also ranks as one of the most important varieties in recently planted 

 orchards. 



TREE. 



Tree large or above medium, strong, vigorous. Form wide-spreading, some- 

 what drooping, rather dense. Twigs medium to long, often somewhat crooked, 

 rather stocky ; internodes usually short. Bark olive-green with reddish-brown 

 tinge, thinly covered with lines of gray scarf-skin, pubescent. Lenticels scat- 

 tering but rather conspicuous, medium in size to rather large, usually roundish, 

 raised. Buds medium to large, broad, plump, obtuse, appressed, pubescent. 

 Leaves rather large, broad ; foliage rather dense. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to large or very large, quite uniform in shape and size. 

 Form roundish to roundish oblate or sometimes slightly inclined to conic, 

 regular or a little inclined to elliptical, sometimes obscurely ribbed, symmetrical 

 or sides slightly unequal. Stem medium in length and thickness, partly green, 



1 This tree on the Drowne farm is supposed by some to be the original Rhode Island 

 Greening tree. An illustrated description of it appeared in the Providence Sunday Journal 

 October 2, 1898. Within recent years a sprout has grown out from the base of this old 

 tree. In 1900 Senator T. R. Drowne very kindly furnished this Station with scions from 

 this sprout and also from the upper branches of the tree. A comparison of the trees 

 propagated from these scions, which are now growing at this Station, shows that the trees 

 from scions taken from the upper branches of the old tree are the true Rhode Island 

 Greening, but those grown from scions taken from the sprout at the base of the old tree 

 are very different, thus demonstrating that the old tree on the Drowne farm is not growing 

 on its own roots and, therefore, is not the original Rhode Island Greening tree. 



