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Ingalls. ^Ir. Atkins found a tree at Biicksport, seventy or eisflitv 

 years old. which produced the same apple, very delicious, and as. 

 juicy in June as in JNIarch. After exchanging apples, we decided 

 that ]Mr. luoalls' apple and the Bucksport and Pope apple were 

 different, though, to settle the matter, we sent specimens to Mr. 

 Charles Downing. He decided, without hesitation, that the Bucks- 

 port and Pope apple was the one so well known and so highly 

 esteemed in Massachusetts as the Massachusetts Golden Russet, 

 the true name of which is Hunt Russet, which originated in the 

 Hunt family, in Concord, Mass., two hundred years ago. Mr. 

 Ingalls' apple, he thinks, is the American Golden Russet, known 

 elsewhere as Sheepnose and Bullock's Pippin. Mr. Downing remarks 

 that he thinks his late brother (A. J. Downing) made a mistake in 

 calling it ■' American Golden Russet," as it bas led to great 

 confusion. 



In correspondence with Mr. Cole, of the firm of Hall & Cole, 

 extensive dealers in apples in Boston, he advises Mr. Atkins and, 

 myself to drop all russets but the Roxbury, as the American Golden, 

 he says, "is almost sweet, tough, tasteless, miserable;" but in 

 condemning all Golden Russets, he excepts " the old-time;-, grown 

 her€ in ^Massachusetts, which has a red cheek, and is as fine eating 

 as need be." This is the Hunt Russet. Evidenth', Mr. Cole has 

 not seen the genuine American Golden, or Sheepnose. 



I should add that I have every year exhibited a small round , 

 apple, which is entirely russet, as the American Golden. This, I: 

 supposed, might l)e the English Golden ; but Miss Alice Foster 

 informs me that, as far as she knows, it originated with Dr. Ford : 

 of Gardiner, and that Mr. Downing could not identify it. Our 

 late associate. Friend Taylor, raised the same apple and called it 

 American Golden It is a nice apple in December and January, 

 and a most profuse bearer alternate \'ears. 



R. H. Gaudixek. 

 Oaklands, August 28. 



