Mr. liumrickhouse^ s Explanations, 4*c. 195 



Art. II. Explanations i?i reference to Two or Three West- 

 ern Apples; with a Note upon a New Variety called the 

 Butter Sweet. By T. S Humrickhouse, Coshocton, Ohio. 



I AM induced to offer a few additional observations, includ- 

 ing a correction or two, upon some items contained in Mr. 

 Fahnestock's article, March number of your Magazine, and 

 in your remarks thereunder, in order to guard against mis- 

 conceptions, which, if left unnoticed, might grow out of them. 



First : — Hart's Orange Sweeting, or, as it may be better to 

 call it simply. Hart's Sweeting. Scions of this apple were 

 first obtained by me from Mr. Isaac B. Hart, of Tiverton 

 township in this county, in the spring of 1841. On referring 

 to ray note-book, I find that, on the 6th day of April, lb41, I 

 grafted, by the method of root-grafting, and placed in the 

 nursery, six trees of it ; and that I did not extend its cultiva- 

 tion further till 1845, when having, in the preceding winter, 

 examined and eaten of the fruit from the original tree, I, on 

 the 24th of March of that year, grafted seven more trees of it, 

 by the same method, and planted them in the nursery. One 

 of the last-mentioned trees I sent to you last fall, numbered, 

 if I mistake not, LI. ; and from another of them the scions 

 were taken which I gave to Mr. Mathews, who sent them to 

 Mr. Fahnestock. 



The fruit is of a clear yellow ; of the size of the Green New- 

 town Pippin ; nearly round ; sweet, juicy, tender, and good ; 

 keeping till April. It is a seedling raised by Mr. Hart, as he 

 informed me. 



Second : — Red Pearmain, often called Long Pearmain. This 

 is, in my estimation, a first-rate apple, in this climate, for 

 November and December. It is not, iiowever, a seedling 

 of Ohio, but is one of the varieties originally brought to Mari- 

 etta from Connecticut ; and the name of Red or Long Pear- 

 main has obtained for it here from its color and shape. It is 

 the English Pearmain of Mr. Bateham's list. 



Third: — American White Winter Calville. This fruit was 

 first oftered to the notice of pomologists by myself I obtained 

 the scions from trees in the orchard of Mrs. Foster, which 

 she had raised from sprouts taken from the tree (since dead) 



