Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 65 



article in our Magazine, (Vol. VII. p. 41,) describing upwards 

 of one hundred varieties, which was overlooked, until after 

 our description referred to was published. 



It always gives us great pleasure to correct any error, and 

 we are gratified, not only in presenting Mr. Jacques's remarks, 

 but in receiving the very superior specimens of the fruit, con- 

 firmatory of his statement of the season of its keeping. 



Art. IV. Descriptions mid Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Ajjples. By the Editor. 



We continue our descriptions of select varieties of apples, 

 and, in the course of the volume, shall include several new 

 sorts. The following are all of rather recent introduction, 

 and two of them are now, for the first time, fully described. 



XXV. Mother. Magazine of Horticulture., Vol. X. p. 210. 



The Mother apple, i^fig. 9,) is as yet but little cultivated 

 beyond the immediate locality of its origin. Probably a 

 greater number of bearing trees are growing in Worcester 

 county, in this state, than is elsewhere to be found. It is 

 supposed to have originated on the farm of General Gardner, 

 in Bolton, in the north part of Worcester county, and not in 

 Middlesex county, as we inadvertently stated in our last vol- 

 ume, (XIV. p. 540.) A friend and correspondent writes us 

 from Worcester, where the Mother is best known, that " it is 

 a very handsome apple, of first quality, ripening about mid- 

 autumn, and is worthy of extensive cultivation." 



<S'i~e, large, about two and three quarter inches broad, and 

 two and three quarters deep : Form., roundish oblong, regu- 

 lar, largest in the middle, and narrowing to the crown, which 

 is small : Skin., fair, smooth., glossy, with a deep rich yellow 

 ground, nearly covered Avith deep brilliant red, somewhat 

 striped and mottled, and dotted with small yellow specks : 

 Stem., rather short, about half an inch in length, slender, and 

 inserted in a somewhat contracted and not very deep cav- 



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