INTRODUCTION. 



chard of Israel Putnam (of wolf-killing memory) in Pom- 

 fret, Connecticut. In the Ohio Cultivator for August 1st, 

 1846, may be found the following authentic list of the va- 

 rieties propagated : 



" 1. Putnam Russet, (RoxburyX 



2. Seek-no-further, (Westfield.) 



3. Early Chandler. 



4. Gilliflower: 



5. Pound Royal, (Lowell). 



6. Natural, (a seedling). 



7. Rhode Island Greening. 



8. Yellow Greening. 



9. Golden Pippin. 



10. Long Island Pippin. 



11. Tallraan Sweeting. 



12. Striped Sweeting. 

 13^ Honey Greening. 



14. Kent Pippin. 



15. Cooper. 



16. Striped Gilliflower. 



17. Black, do. 



18. Prolific Beauty. 



19. Queening, (Summer Queen?) 



20. English Pearmain. 



21. Green Pippin. 



22. Spitzenberg, (Esopus ?) 



Many of these have disappeared from the orchards and 

 from the nurseryrhen's catalogues," 



