24 Descriptions of Six Varieties of Apjjles. 



tributors to the disease in apples. I fear that this delicious 

 fruit is to be subject to a disease, the cause of which may, 

 perhaps, be as difficult of discovery or prevention as that 

 Avhich has attacked the potato. 



During the last year, I noticed several varieties of apples, 

 decayed before their usual time, and not in the usual man- 

 ner, while the skin remained sound, the pulp beneath be- 

 came discolored, or of a lightish brown, and, in color, taste, 

 and smell, what has been termed the " bitter rot," which has 

 long affected many varieties at the core. This season, I have 

 found a greater proportion of such fruit as have ripened dis- 

 eased than I saw last year. The variety which has been 

 cultivated for the last fifty years through western New York 

 as the Holland Pippin, (not the Holland Pippin of Downing,) 

 and which we consider one of our finest varieties for late fall, 

 and early winter use, has been materially injured by this dis- 

 ease. This variety has, for many years, been injured more 

 or less by black spots upon the skin, which spots have much 

 the same smell and taste that the discolored pulp has, from 

 which circumstance I fear that it originates from the same 

 cause, or one very similar. 



This discoloring, in many specimens which I have noticed, 

 appears to radiate from the calyx, or the line between that 

 and the core, and the core was also afiected with the bitter 

 rot. The iEsopus Spitzenberg, Baldwin, and Newtown Pip- 

 pin have been, for many years, more or less subject to the 

 bitter rot in some localities, but they are of firmer flesh than 

 the Holland Pippin ; it remains to be seen whether they will 

 be liable to this disease. 



Rochester, November 25th, 1848. 



Art. IV. Descripjtions aiid Engravings of Six Varieties 

 of Apples. By T. S. Humrickhouse, Coshocton, Ohio. 



The following descriptions and figures of six well-known 

 apples have been prepared for the Magazine, with a view to 

 aid, as far as in my power, in rescuing them from a portion 



