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lation to it, as it was pronounced so fine a variety. When, 

 however, we had tasted the fruit, and made our description, 

 we became more confident that it was what it had been stated 

 to be in the West, tlie Bell-flower ; and this, too, by a Com- 

 mittee of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, of which our 

 correspondent ivas Chairman ! We quote the words of this 

 Committee : " The splendid apple, under the name of Bell- 

 flower, presented by the Rev. Mr. Beecher, of Indianapolis, 

 proves identical with the Detroit apple." Now Mr. Ernst 

 will not deny that Mr. Beecher, who went from the East, 

 where the Bell-flower is as well known as the Baldwin, did 

 not send the true Bell-flower ! It is, therefore, more upon 

 Mr, Ernst's own authority^ than upon any other, that we say 

 the Detroit is an Eastern variety. 



And before we refer to the other varieties named, we must 

 not omit to call the attention of cultivators to the engraving 

 of the fruit. How much does it resemble a drawing in the 

 Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, p. 101, j^^. 41, of an ap- 

 ple called the white Bell-flower? And yet Mr. Downing does 

 not hesitate to call that the Detroit. Now, either Mr. Ernst 

 did not send the true Detroit apple to the Mass. Hort. Soc, or 

 else Mr. Downing has represented some other fruit; for they 

 have no similarity whatever : the Detroit having a long slen- 

 der stem, in our figure, and a short thick one in Mr. Down- 

 mg's, though we do not rely too much on the stem, which is 

 variable ; but the form is wholly dissimilar, as will be seen 

 by comparing the two engravings. 



We have never stated that the Detroit and Bell-flower were 

 identical, though we have supposed the former was synony- 

 mous either with the yellow Bell-flower, of Coxe, or the 

 monstrous Bell-flower of the same author. {Coxe^s View, 

 &c., p. 118, fig. 29.) The drawing sent us by Mr. Ernst 

 corresponds very nearly with the figure of the latter ; much 

 nearer than with that of the yellow : this question, however, 

 we leave to be decided ; in our mind, there can be no doubt 

 the Detroit is identical with one of these two varieties, if, 

 indeed, there is any other dilference between them than 

 what cultivation may effect. 



Second, the Putnam Russet. We have noticed that this 

 is made a Western seedling, by Mr. Downing, on the au- 



