126 ESSAY ON THE APPLE. 



^'Minister," and the "Mother," they are of recent origin, the first 

 named was raised in Rowley, and is a winter fruit, combining great 

 beauty, productiveness, large size, fine flavor, and late keeing prop- 

 erties. The other is a late fall apple of highest order ; it originated 

 in Bolton, and is a large oblong red fruit of excellent flavor and a 

 good bearer. No better evidence can be given of the congeniality 

 of the soil of our state for the Apple, than the natural production of 

 such fruit as the Baldwin, Minister, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Mother, 

 Roxbury Russet, Danvers Winter Sweet, Aunt Hannah, and the 

 Ben of Reading. 



