388 Descripiio?is of Two Varieties of Apples. 



flavor, place it among the best cherries which enrich onr col- 

 lections. J\lr. Downer informed us, some time since, when 

 we visited his garden to see the original 

 tree, that he had seedlings of the third gen- 

 eration, and, though each of tliem were 

 good, nearly resembling the parent, neither 

 of them quite came up to it. 



Tree partially spreading ; wood pale 

 brown ; leaves, oblong, acuminate. 



Fruit, medium size, about seven eighths 

 of an inch broad, and three quarters 

 of an inch long : Form, roundish heart- 

 shaped: SJchi, clear light red, of a semi- 

 transparent appearance, and beautifully 

 mottled with amber in the shade : Stem, 

 medium length, about one and a half inches 

 Fig. 38. Doxcner loug, rather slend-^r, and inserted in a small 

 CheTTij. shallow cavity : F/esA, dark amber-colored, 



very tender, and melting: Juice, plentiful, brisk, sweet, deli- 

 cious, and high-flavored : Stove, small, roundish oval. Ripe 

 ^rom the first to the middle of July. 



Art. II. Descriptions of two Varieties of Apples, uith en- 

 gravin^s of the fruit. By T. S. Humrickhouse, Coshoc- 

 ton, Ohio. 



Summer Sioeeting. — This {fig. 30,) is one of the Marietta 

 apples, being found in all the old orchards on the Muskingum in 

 ■company with the Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet- 

 ing, &c. Hence, though nothing further of its history is 

 known to me, its eastern origin is inferred. Most likely, it 

 wtis brought out from Connecticut, but it is not described so 

 as to be recognized in any pomological work that I have ex- 

 amined. It is the earliest of the early sweet apples, and a 

 great favorite. The Size, is about medium — hardly so large 

 as the Early Sweet Bough which I have also before me: 

 nearly round, always fair and uniform in shape and size : 



