Descriptions of Three New Apples. Td 



recently sent us by J. H. Watts, Esq. of Rochester. A 

 variety possessing such superior quahties is deserving of the 

 most extensive cultivation. It has been stated by some wri- 

 ters in Western New York, that when the trees become old 

 they produce only small and inferior fruit, and that it is only 

 for a few years, when they are in their greatest vigor, that 

 they bear good-sized and sound apples : this has also been 

 contradicted, and we should think that the statement might 

 be rather premature ; for the variety is so new that few large 

 orchards can yet exist, and the difference of soil or location 

 may make much difference in regard to the fairness of the pro- 

 duct. At any rate, it is a variety well worth cultivation, for 

 in our estimation it is fully equal to any apple we possess, not 

 excepting the Baldwin, the favorite of NewEngland. The fol- 

 lowing information in regard to its origin, &:c. has been com- 

 municated by Mr. Watts : — 



" I take great pleasure in sending you a box of Fruit, 

 known with us as the Northern Spy apple. 



" My object (this season) has been to introduce it, believing 

 it to be equal to any grown. One of its peculiar properties is 

 that it keeps so well in ordinary seasons : it is in its perfection 

 in April and May, and is then as fresh as a June apple. This 

 year now the past one, all fruit has ripened earlier with us 

 than usual, and consequently many of the Spys are ripe. For 

 a description, and somewhat of its history, I am indebted to the 

 Genesee Farmer, of the year 184.5. It originated in the town 

 of East Bloomfield, state of New York, in the orchard of the 

 late Oliver Chapin, and has been known but for some five or 

 six years. The first of the fruit seen in our city, a friend tells 

 me, he discovered in the month of May, 1841, and he was de- 

 lighted with its appearance and soon discovered its fine flavor, 

 and on inquiry he found that it was a supposed seedling or 

 natural fruit, and it has proved so, and one which has not its 

 superior in our country. 



"Young trees, or those that have carefully been pruned, 

 produce abundant crops, and the fruit is of large size and ex- 

 tremely beautiful. 



" The tree is a rapid, upright and handsome grower, wood 

 dark brown, covered with gray-colored specks or dots. Very 

 easily distinguished from any other. Fruit somewhat coni- 



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