440 Three New Varieties of Apples. 



Art III. Three Neia Varieties of Apples, with Descriptions 

 and Engravings of the Fruit. By the Editor. 



The number of new varieties of the apple is nearly as rap- 

 idly increasing as that of the pear, more particularly of our 

 American seedlings. Every year brings to notice several 

 new ones, some of which take their rank among the finest of 

 the oldest and most esteemed varieties. The Northern Spy, 

 Melon, and Hawley are of this class, and we have no doubt 

 the list will soon be greatly augmented. Others there are 

 which will undoubtedly obtain the same eminence as supe- 

 rior varieties, and, among them, probably one or all of the 

 sorts we are now about to describe; we recommend them for 

 trial, and have no doubt they will fully sustain the charac- 

 ter which we have accorded to each. 



1. Manomet. 



Horseblock. 



This fine apple {^fig. 43,) is a native of the Old Colony, 

 and, though now brought to the notice of pomologists for the 

 first time, has been known in the locality where it originated 

 for nearly/or/?/ years. It is somewhat remarkable that this, as 

 well as many other of our fine native fruits, should so long 

 remain unknown ; yet it shows how little attention has here- 

 tofore been devoted to the cultivation of choice varieties, and 

 how contented too many individuals are with inferior sorts 

 even when superior ones are to be obtained only for the ask- 

 ing. The Northern Spy, that finest of all apples, was a very 

 common fruit in the market of Rochester, N. Y., before it had 

 been cultivated scarcely beyond the orchard where it orig- 

 inated. 



Mr. Washburn, of Plymouth, who supplied us with fine 

 specimens of the Manomet apple, informs us that it "orig- 

 inated on the Holbrook farm, at Manomet Pond Village, a 

 few miles south of Plymouth." It has been called the Horse 

 Block apple ; but, as that name has little to recommend it to 

 favor, Mr. Washburn proposes to call it the "Manomet apple, 

 as Manomet Point is the prominent head of land of the Bay." 



