106 Some Account of the Cooper Apple. 



so, for reasons which will appear in what follows, and be- 

 cause I supposed it would undoubtedly be recognized by Mr. 

 Downing, to whom specimens were likewise sent by Mr. 

 Springer, as an old acquaintance. I now regret it, since, had 

 I done so, I could have complied with your request. 



The Cooper is, indeed, a most superior apple. If you 

 transcribe in full Mr. Manning's description of the "Drap 

 d'Or," (as I hope you will do in a note to this,) and add to it, 

 as Mr. Kenrick has done, that its season extends through No- 

 vember, you will have a complete description of the Coop- 

 er. Indeed, I believe them to be identical, though the one 

 specimen sent me by Mr. Springer was not enough to enable 

 me to come to that as a settled conclusion. Nor would I has- 

 tily, in any case, pronounce upon the identity of fruits. 



The Cooper apple, like the Putnam, — should I not rath- 

 er say Roxbury Russet, — was brought from New England by 

 the emigrants who settled the " Ohio Company's Purchase," 

 and founded Marietta, in company with the Rhode Island 

 Greening and other sorts. It is contained in the original list 

 of the varieties so brought out, now in the possession of Wil- 

 liam Rufus Putnam, as appears by the statement of Mr. Bate- 

 ham, Editor of the Ohio Cultivator, in an article published 

 in the number of his paper of the date of 1st. August, 1846, 

 and which, on Mr. Bateham's authority, I take to be undoubt- 

 edly genuine. As that list is valuable for reference, and will 

 be better preserved for that purpose in your Magazine, I have 

 thought proper to subjoin it. 



" List of Apple Grafts received from Connecticut in 1796 : — 



1. Putnam Russet, 



2. Seek-no-Further, 



3. Early Chandler, 



4. Late Chandler, 



5. Gilliflower (red), 



6. Pound Royal, 



7. Natural (Seedling.) 



8. Rhode Island Greening, 



9. Yellow Greening, 



10. Golden Pippin, 



11. Long Island Pippin, 



12. Tallman's Sweeting, | 23. Spitzenberg. 



13. Striped Sweeting, 



14. Honey Greening, 



15. Kent Pippin, 



16. Cooper Apple, 



17. Striped Gilliflower, 



18. Black Gilliflower, 



19. Prolific Beauty, 



20. Queening, 



21. English Pearmain, 



22. Green Pippin, 



