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little foxiness, and infinitely superior to the whole herd of 

 wild grapes. Gardner W. Russell. Hartford, Kehruaiy 

 13, 1852." 



The Primate Apple. — Some time since (vol. XVII, p. 

 506,) we gave some account of the history of this apple, by Mr. 

 A. Fahnestock, of Syracuse, New York. Our correspondent, 

 J. C. Holmes, of Michigan, havin'g noticed Mr. Fahnestock's 

 communication, in which he traced the apple back to some 

 scions engrafted by Mr. Lyman Tubbs, now of Michigan, he 

 requested his friend Mr. L. H. Trask, of Kalamazoo, to find 

 Mr. Tubbs, and inquire of him where he obtained the scions 

 from, and whether the tree was a seedling, &c. A reply was 

 received from Mr. Trask, and forwarded to us by Mr. Holmes, 

 The substance of his letter is as follows : — 



'' After so long a time, I have been able to see Mr. Lyman 

 Tubbs and procured of him such information as I could, in 

 relation to the Primate Apple. 



" Mr. Tubbs says he is the man ; that he always called it 

 the July apple, and that is the name he had with the scions, 

 which he procured from New Jersey, while he lived in Ben- 

 ton. He obtained the scions through some neighbors of his, 

 in Benton, from an acquaintance of theirs by the name of 

 Bush, who lived in New Jersey ; but he does not know in 

 what town or county Mr. Bush resided, and the friends of 

 Mr. Bush, who lived in Benton, are all dead, or gone away, 

 he does not know where. At this time, Mr. Tubbs thinks 

 that this Mr. Bush, of New Jersey, died some three or four 

 years ago. 



'* This is about all the information I could get from the old 

 gentleman ; except, he thinks that the scions he obtained 

 from New Jersey were from a grafted tree, and not from a 

 seedling. Mr. Tubbs also says there are some trees grafted 

 with the apple on the farm he used to own near Galesbury, 

 in this county, where he thinks grafts may be obtained. 

 Yours truly, L. H. Trask. Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan., 1852." 



This letter may lead to the discovery of some further facts 

 in regard to the origin of this variety. As, however, the 

 scions were obtained for Mr. Tubbs by a friend, his remark 



