24 AMERICAN POMOLOGY. 



mendation; but there are many others who have con- 

 tributed their full share of benefits by their labors in the 

 same field, to whom also we owe a debt of gratitude. Two 

 of the chief foci in the Ohio valley from which valuable 

 fruits have been distributed most largely, were the settle- 

 ment at the mouth of the Muskingurn, with its Putnam 

 list given below ; and a later, but very important intro- 

 duction of choice fruits, brought into the Miami country 

 by Silas Wharton, a nurseryman from Pennsylvania, who 

 settled among a large body of the religious Society of 

 Friends, in Warren Co., Ohio. The impress of this im- 

 portation is very manifest in all the country, within a 

 radius of one hundred miles, and some of his fruits are 

 found doing well in the northwestern part of the State of 

 Ohio, in northern Indiana, and in an extended region 

 westward. 



There are, no doubt, many other local foci, whence 

 good fruits have radiated to bless regions more or less ex- 

 tensive, and in every neighborhood we find the name of 

 some early pomologist attached to the good fruits that he 

 had introduced, thus adding another synonym to the nu- 

 merous list of those belonging to so many of our good 

 varieties. 



A. W. Putnam commenced an apple nursery in 1794, a 

 few years after the first white settlement at Marietta, Ohio, 

 the first grafts were set in the spring of 1796 ; they were 

 obtained from Connecticut by Israel Putnam, and were the 

 first set in the State, and grafted by W. Rufus Putnam. 

 Most of the early orchards of the region were planted 

 from this nursery. These grafts were taken from the or- 



