THE HAWLEY APPLE. 



Hawley. Magazine of Horticulture, yoI. xiii. p. 535. 



Dows or Douse of some American Collections. 



The Hawley apple, though yet but little known 

 out of its native locality, will undoubtedly become 

 one of the most popular of our fall varieties. It 

 has a combination of excellent qualities : first, its 

 large size, often measuring twelve inches in cir- 

 cumference ; second, its uniform handsome shape, 

 and freedom from specks or blemishes ; third, its 

 fine deep lemon yellow skin; fourth, its remark- 

 ably tender and high flavored flesh ; and, lastly, 

 its productiveness, vigorous growth, &c. All 

 these properties are rarely possessed by a single kind, and hence its 

 superiority over many others. 



This fine apple was introduced to notice by Gen. E. W. Leavenworth, 

 of Syracuse, N. Y. In the fall of 1846, he sent us some remarkably 

 fine specimens of the fruit, with an account of its origin. From his 

 letter it appears that, about a century ago, Mr. Matthew Hawley removed 

 from Milford, Conn., to New Canaan, in Columbia Co., N. Y., and, as 

 usual with every settler at that time, took with him a lot of apple seeds, 

 from which he raised and planted an orchard of seedling trees on his 

 farm in that place. The Hawley was one of these seedhng trees. The 

 farm afterwards passed into the hands of his son Daniel, and was, in 

 1846, owned by Thomas Hawley, the son of Daniel. For about forty 

 years, it has been well known and cultivated in the neighborhood of its 

 locality, as well as by eminent orchardists in Onondaga and Cayuga 

 counties. The original tree has been dead about twenty years. Scions 

 were obtained from it by the uncles of Mr. Leavenworth, through whom 

 he became acquainted with this apple, and generally made known its 

 excellence. 



The tree is a good grower, forms a fine round and rather loose head, 

 and bears abundant crops. Its season is the last of September, just 

 before the Fall Pippin, which it somewhat resembles in shape and gen- 

 eral appearance. 



Tree. — ^Vigorous, upright, somewhat spreading, branching low, and 

 forming a handsome head ; annual shoots rather slender. 



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