70 Descriptions of Three New Apples. 



small, very slender and long, almost black, mostly abortive. 

 Ripe in October. 



Art. V. Descriptions and Engravings of Three New Apples. 

 By the Editor. 



Having, in our several volumes, described and figured up- 

 wards of seventy varieties of pears, embracing many of the 

 newest and most choice kinds, we now intend to devote the 

 same attention to that most valuable fruit, the apple. Having 

 collected together more than two hundred of the best varieties, 

 and upwards of one hundred new American seedlings, and 

 planted out specimen trees, of which several will come into 

 bearing the present year, we shall have the opportunity of 

 describing them from specimens produced under our own eye, 

 and shall be enabled to give all the particulars of growth, 

 productiveness, &c. These, we trust, will prove as interesting 

 and mstructive to pomologists as our articles on the pear. 



We now commence with the descriptions of three new and 

 superior varieties, one of which has just been introduced to 

 the notice of cultivators. The two first have already been 

 briefly described in our pages, but we have not seen any de- 

 scription of the last. For the very fine specimens of the Red 

 Canada and Northern Spy, we are again indebted to our 

 friends in Western New York, Mr. Bissell of Rochester, who 

 sent us the former, and J. H. Watts of the same city, who 

 forwarded us a bushel of beautiful specimens of the latter. 

 To Mr. Watts also, we are indebted for some account of the 

 Northern Spy, which we have embodied in our description of 

 that apple below. The varieties are as follows : — 



I. Twenty Ounce. Mag. of Hort. Vol. X. p. 210. 



Gov. Seward's, J ^^ ^^^^ collections in New York. 



Twenty Ounce pippin, J 



l:;:^ g:ri.S; \ °^ ^ayug. oou..,. New York. 



The first knowledge we had of this apple was in the au- 

 tumn of 1843, when some very fine specimens were presented 



