296 The Averill Apple. 



it is stated, grows in " Woods, Gloucester, Princeton, «fcc." 

 Now if, in any locality, any particular plant is very abundant, 

 as that of Andromeda poiifoiia, at Wenham, by knowing that 

 locality the spot can at once be reached, and the plants secured 

 without a fruitless search, perhaps of a day or more. 



We trust we shall have further accounts from Mr. Russell, 

 of other excursions by the committee of the institute, and 

 we think we speak the views of our many readers, when 

 we say, they will be found among our most valuable commu- 

 nications. — Ed. 



Art, II. The Averill Apple, its Origin, ^'c, ivith a Descrip- 

 tion of the Fiuit, By L. P. Grosvenor, Pomfret, Conn. ; 

 in a letter to Samuel Walker, Esq., President of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society. With an Engraving of 

 the Frnit. By the Editor. 



The following account of the Averill apple was communi- 

 cated to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by Mr. 

 Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Conn., a gentleman who is not only 

 well acquainted with all the best apples, but has an extensive 

 orchard of the finest varieties. The society voted that Mr. 

 Grosvenor's letter should be published in our magazine. We 

 are highly gratified in presenting the same to our pomologi- 

 cal friends, and can confirm the good opinion expressed of 

 this new fruit. By the kindness of Mr. Walker, we received 

 one of the apples, and annex to Mr. Grosvenor's description, 

 which is very complete, an outline engraving of the fruit, 

 {fig. 26.) 



Dear Sir, — I wrote you, some days ago, about a seedling 

 apple ; having an opportunity, I now send a sample for the 

 inspection of the committee on fruits of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. The original tree is growing in an 

 orchard of un grafted trees, belonging to Dea. Lewis Averill, 

 on the farm where the den is situated in which Putnam 

 killed the wolf. The ground has been in grass many ^'•ears, 

 and the tree is covered with moss. A few years ago the 



