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sally diffused through the eastern and central parts of 

 Indiana, and is esteemed a first-rate apple. The tree strik- 

 ingly resembles the Green Newtown Pippin, but its brush is 

 not so small, and there is less of it, the top being rather 

 more open. The wood is brittle, and, as the tree is a free 

 and constant bearer, it tends to break, and is troublesome 

 to keep in good order. Mr. Ernst and other gentlemen of 

 Cincinnati suppose the variety to be the Detroit. We 

 cannot say one thing or another, except that it is of the 

 Bellflower family. The Detroit of New York is a widely 

 different fruit, of a bright scarlet color, and we never heard 

 of any other Detroit, until the name was applied to this 

 apple. 



There is not the least doubt that the Golden Busset of the 

 West is the Dullock Pippin and Sheep-nose of New Jersey, 

 and we hojie that the proposed name ''''American Golden 

 HusseV will deliver us, for ever after, from eating any 

 more sheep-noses. Names are of importance in classifying 

 fruits, and there is a pleasure also in having a decorous name 

 to a good fruit. It is amusing to look through a catalogue 

 of singular names. 



The Hoss apple is popularly the Horse apple, and when, 

 on a certain contingency a gentleman promised to eat a hoss 

 it was not so hazardous a threat as some have imagined. 

 The French, in naming their fruits, exercise a freedom with 

 things human and divine, to which we occidentals are not 

 accustomed (as. Ah Mon Dieu ! Grosse Ctiisse Madame^ 

 etc.), and an innocent person, recapitulating his pears, might, 

 if overheard by neighbors imderstanding French, be 

 thought very profane, or worse. There are other names 

 which have a tendency to make the mouth water, as Onion 

 Pear. One must have pleasing^ associations while eating 

 the Toad Pear. (See Prince's Pom. Man. p. 24 and 34.) 

 The French J3o7i Chretien (or Good Christian) is called in 

 these parts the Pon Cheat-em. Then, there is the Demoi- 

 selle, the Lady's Flesh, and Love's Pear (Prince, 58, 34, 



