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if Dr. Kirtland be correct, that a fruit so very first rate, 

 should never have found its proper rank or be lield in just 

 estimation, till it made its appearance, under the disguise of 

 a n§w name, in Ohio. Coxe knew it and described it. Others 

 knew it long ago ; and it must have had a fair trial in New 

 Jersey. No : I should rather think that Dr. Kirtland is 

 again mistaken. 



An account of the Gate apple, which has always been re- 

 ceived as true, was published about five years ago in the 

 Western Recorder^ a religious newspaper edited by Rev. 0. 

 Springer, at Zanesville, Ohio. I have not that account by 

 me or I would copy it. That this apple was first dissemi- 

 nated from the nurseries along the Ohio, in Harrison, Jeffer- 

 son, and Belmont Counties, seems to be true, and according 

 to the account of it published by Mr. Springer, the original 

 tree, a seedling, stood at the gate of an old lady's yard, who 

 was familiarly called Old Mother Beam, and the name was 

 given to the apple from the place the tree stood, — Gate. 



It may be estimated, that, in this county alone, as many as 

 forty thousand seedling apple trees have borne fruit in the 

 various orchards. In other counties in this State, which 

 were begun to be settled, when grafted trees could not be ob- 

 tained by the settlers for orchard planting, the proportion of 

 seedling trees is equally large. It is to be expected, therefore, 

 that a great number of seedling varieties of merit should be 

 found in the orchards, in different parts of the State. Ac- 

 cordingly it will be seen, by looking at the lists and cata- 

 logues of our nurserymen, that they contain a vast number 

 of seedling fruits. That these are of every order of merit, 

 seems fair to be inferred. Some, then, rmist be first rate. 

 Again : If so many New England apples, after being fully 

 tested, have proved first rate, is it not an argument in favor 

 of a like result to be expected in the vast number now on 

 trial in Ohio ? Indeed, are we not fully warranted, from this 

 reasoning and from these facts, in asserting, that large acces- 

 sions will shortly be made to the number of our first rate 

 apples in cultivation 1 



I, among others, am engaged in this work, and I think not 

 without a share of success. Among the kinds now on trial 

 with me, are many of which I entertain high expectations. 



