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tinguished for the qualities of productiveness, beauty and 

 long keeping. These I send you now I think you will find, 

 perhaps, not quite so rich as the Baldwin, but more juicy and 

 sprightly. I think the size will average about the same as 

 the Baldwin, and I have found it keep about as well as 

 the Roxbury Russet. I have a small tree (which you, per- 

 haps, may have noticed) which presents a beautiful appear- 

 ance when hanging full, — as it always does in a bearing 

 season, — of its highly colored apples." Mr. Manning's 

 specimens, though small, we found fully to sustain the char- 

 acter he has given the Jonathan ; and the last year, having 

 some larger samples from our own trees, we are enabled to 

 give a full description of this excellent apple {fig. 3). 



Fig. 3. Jonathan. 



Judge Buel sent specimens of the Jonathan to the Mass. 

 Horticultural Society in 1829, and stated that it was " an 

 Esopus seedling, and sometimes called the New Spitzen- 

 berg." Subsequently Mr. Kenrick described it in the Am. 

 Orchardist, on the authority of Judge Buel. It originated 

 on the farm of Mr. Philip Rick, of Woodstock, Ulster Co., 

 N. Y. and the original tree was growing there, a few years 



