Descriptions of Three New Apples. 71 



for exhibition, before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 by George Howland, Esq., of New Bedford, who procured 

 them from trees on his farm in Cayuga county, New York. 

 From their great beauty, as well as excellence, the committee 

 awarded Mr. Howland a premium, and requested a few sci- 

 ons for distribution among the members, which were duly for- 

 warded for that object. In the spring of 1S44, we were 

 fortunate in procuring a small tree of this variety, together 



Fig, 10. Twenty Ounce Apple. 



with several other new apples, selected from the orchards of 

 the west, and the past year j t produced two very beautiful 

 specimens, not quite so lavge as those exhibited by Mr. How- 

 land but of the size shown in our engraving, (^fig. 10;) the 

 tree from which they were gathered not being move than four 

 feet high. If proves fully equal to the character we then 

 gave it, and taking all its qualjli.es ir>to consideration, it must 

 rank as one of the finest early winter apples we possess. 

 Where it originated we ha^ve no information. The trees ap- 

 pear to be mostly confined to Cayuga county, New York. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches deep and four 

 broad: Form, round, regular, shghtly ribbed at the base: 



