Neiv Seedling Apple. 



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box of specimens of fruit for your inspection and that of 

 our society; but in this I have been disappointed. 1 have 

 prevailed on Mr. Mussey to take a few specimens, and a 

 few scions ; I may have other opportunities before too late : 

 if so, I shall not fail to avail myself of the pleasure. 



Detroit. — No. 1, is the apple which is known here as the 

 Detroit apple, specimens of which, with its history, so far 

 as I have been enabled to trace it, I sent you last winter. 

 The present specimens are a fairer sample of what the fruit 

 is. I will thank you for any information with regard to it, 

 if it is known with 5^ou, and the estimation in which it is 

 held. 



Cannahaii' s Favorite. — No. 2, {fig- 7,) is a specimen of 

 a seedling apple under the name of "Cannahan's Favor- 



Cannahan's Favorite. 



its." The original tree of this fruit stands on Mr. Canna- 

 han's farm, thirteen miles north of this city, on the " Ham- 

 ilton Road." The seed from which this tree originated 

 was sown by Mr. Andrew Williams at North Bend, (late 

 the residence of the lamented Harrison,) from whom Mr. 

 Cannahan procured it with a parcel of other trees, and 



