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it as big as your fist, at the exceedingly low price, as they 

 would consider it, of four thousand dollars. But, as they can 

 buy, in this neighborhood, any quantity of land equally good 

 and well improved, but without the orchard, at much lower 

 rates, I do not think any of them will be found to take me 

 up, so that I may rest easy. These last two sentences, you 

 will say, are not very germane to the subject. 

 Coshocton^ Ohio, February 6th, 1847. 



Art. IV. Descriptions and Engravings of Three New Ap- 

 ples. By the Editor. 



At page 70, we commenced a series of articles in which it is 

 our object to describe and figure all the fine varieties of apples 

 which appear deserving of cultivation, in the same manner 

 in which we have figured upwards of seventy-five varieties of 

 pears. The apple is the great staple fruit of our country, and 

 it is to be regretted that so little has been done to make known 

 the best kinds, or to set aright the numerous errors in nomen- 

 clature which abound in our Catalogues and Treatises on ' 

 Fruit. 



To attempt this object will be our endeavor in this article : 

 all the new and choice kinds which are. from time to time, 

 brought into notice, will be accurately described and figured, 

 while, at the same time, we shall not neglect a full account of 

 the older and proved sorts, giving the synonyms under which 

 many of them are cultivated, and other particulars relative to 

 their growth, the soils to which they are best adapted, &c. 



We shall continue the numeral order of the varieties, com- 

 mencing with the article referred to. 



IV. Early Joe. 



In our last volume, (XII, p. 474,) under our Pomological 

 Notices, we briefly described this new apple, {fig. 15,) and 

 we have but little to add now to the account we then gave of 

 it, except a more full description. Mr. Bissell of Rochester, 

 who sent us some fine specimens, gives us the following par- 



