Some Account of the Cooper Apple. 107 



Having received, some time since, a letter from Mr. Spring- 

 er, informing me of his communication to Mr. Downing, 

 touching the Cooper, and some others of our varieties I 

 immediately wrote to him, referring him to the foregoing list 

 m proof that it is not an Ohio fruit. I also, about the same 

 time, mentioned the same fact to the Hon. James Matthews, 

 another of Mr. Downing's correspondents. And I requested 

 both of them, that, in writing again to Mr. Downing, they 

 should call his attention to it, and obtain from him his' opin- 

 ion, as he had seen the fruit, if it is not the '•' Fall Harvey " 

 the "Dyer," or the '-'Drap d'Or." This they will doubt- 

 less do. 



I have already stated my opinion that the Cooper apple is 

 the -Drap d'Or" of Coxe, but by no means affirming such to 

 be the case. 



Coshocton, January 27, 1847. 



We trust our friends and correspondents in the West will 

 not suppose we wish to detract in the least from the merit 

 which attaches to their fertile soil, in the production of new 

 seedhng fruits, in endeavoring to show that many of those 

 which are supposed natives, are only well known eastern 

 kmds which were carried into their region by the early set- 

 tlers of the country from New England. There are undoubt- 

 edly hundreds of seedling apples of great excellence now in 

 existence in their nurseries and orchards, and we soon expect 

 to see great additions to our catalogues, especially from Ohio • 

 but as several supposed native fruits have prov^^d not to be 

 so. It may be well to proceed cautiously in identifying many 

 of the kinds which are yearly brought into notice, that confu- 

 sion may not grow out of hasty conclusions. Our excellent 

 correspondent, Mr. Ernst, whose exertions have been so sig- 

 nally important in detecting native seedlings, and bringing 

 them to the notice of cultivators, thought we were hasty in 

 our remarks when we stated that the " Detroit, Putnam russet 

 and other apples had proved to be Eastern varieties;" but we 

 believe now, that even some of those whose dictum was sup- 

 posed to be authority, admit what we showed to be the fact 

 (Vol. XH., p. 141,) that the Putnam Russet and Roxburv 

 rvusset are identical. ^ 



