62 Descriptions and Engravings 



since. It was named in honor of Jonathan Harbrauck, Esq., 

 from whom Judge Buel first received the fruit. 



The Jonathan is one of the richest colored and most 

 beautiful of our native apples. The trees are good growers, 

 making vigorous, though rather slender, wood, and come into 

 bearing early, compared with most apples. It is a variety 

 admirably suited for dwarf trees, as it naturally forms a low 

 and compact head. Wood, light brownish chestnut. 



Size, medium, about two and a half inches broad, and 

 two deep ; Form, roundish, regularly shaped, narrowing 

 little to the eye : Skin, fair, smooth, with a deep yellow 

 ground, nearly or quite covered with bright red, shaded with 

 crimson and purplish red on the sunny side : Stem, medi- 

 um length, about one inch long, rather slender, curved, and 

 deeply sunk in a rather contracted, regularly formed cavity : 

 Eye, rather small, partially open, and considerably sunk in a 

 furrowed basin ; segments of the calyx short : Flesh, white, 

 sometimes tinged with red, fine, crisp and tender : Juice, 

 abundant, rich, subacid, sprightly and very high flavored : 

 Core, small, close : Seeds, medium sized, oblong, flattened. 

 Ripe from December to May. 



XXVIII. Esopus Spitzenberg. Cox's View, &c. 



iEsopus Spitzemberg, Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 

 Esopus Spitzemberg, Kenrick's Am. Orchardist. 

 iEsopus Spitzenburgh, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 



The Esopus Spitzenberg, {Jig. 4,) is one of the most famous 

 of American apples, and ranks with the Baldwin and New- 

 town pippin, among the best varieties which have been 

 produced. It originated at Esopus, on the Hudson river, a 

 locality celebrated for fine apples, and has been very gener- 

 ally disseminated through the Middle and Western States. 

 In New England it has not yet been very extensively grown. 

 An impression has prevailed that it can only be raised in fine 

 condition near the place of its origin, and Mr. Coxe remarks 

 that it "is supposed to deteriorate when transplanted to the 

 south of the Highlands on the Hudson River." Great quan- 

 tities are raised throughout New York State, where it is 



