160 Descriptions of Three Neio Apples. 



ticulars: — " Some of the delicious seedling apples of the Yal- 

 ley of the Genesee have been extensively noticed and dissem- 



Fig. 15. Early Joe. 



inated : a few yet remain to enrich the Pomology of less fa- 

 vored regions among iis, at the head of which should stand 

 the Early Joe. We send you herewith some specimens of 

 fruit of the ordinary size for your opinion and notice, should 

 you think it worthy. When neglected, the tree bears every 

 other year enormous crops, of the size and quality of these, but, 

 with proper care in trimming out, they will attain to nearly 

 double the size. The tree grows slowly ; the wood is slim ; 

 the bark dark-colored, and the green of the foliage is deep 

 and rich. It was called the Early Joe, because a fellow 

 named Joe for some time stole the apples early in the morn- 

 ing, before the family that owned the orchard were up, and 

 only desisted after the hired man had cut ' Early Joe' in the 

 bark of every tree. The parent tree grew in the orchard of 

 Mr. Oliver Chapin of Bloomfield, Ontario County, in the same 

 orchard with the Northern Spy, and is, we believe, still alive.'" 

 To this we have only to add, that the variety is really a very 

 good fruit ; its only objection, if it may be called one, to its 

 ranking among the best fruits, is its rather small size. It is a 

 handsome apple, with a deep red skin and a very tender flesh. 

 Size, medium, about two inches and a half broad, and two 

 deep : Form, oblate, slightly rounding towards the crown : 

 Skin, smooth, dull yellow, nearly covered with distinct stripes 

 of dark purplish red, interspersed with numerous whitish 



