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Art. IV. Some account of tioo new varieties of Apples, with 

 Engravings of the Fruit. By the Editor. 



The Northern Sweet. — In the January number of our 

 present vokime, (page 36,) we gave a brief notice of the 

 Northern Sweet apple, and were only prevented from adding 

 a full description at that time, by the loss of our specimens, 

 which were kindly given to us by our correspondent, Mr. J. 

 Battey, of KeeseviUe, N. Y., who exhibited a quantity of the 

 fruit at the Pomological Congress last year. 



Mr. Battey, in order to place it in our power to give a 

 description of it, has sent us some excellent specimens, not 

 quite so large as those last year, but fully up to the average 

 size of the variety. We copy his remarks : — 



The Northern Sweet apples are rather poor specimens, and 

 I would not send them did I not feel a kind of necessity 

 from the circumstances of last year. I have but three trees 

 in bearing of this variety. Two of them are near a public 

 road, and to save a tithe of the fruit I had to pick them 

 while yet green. The other tree is an old one, in a very 

 bad situation, the fruit from which (it bears three other 

 sorts) is of only moderate size. 



I have had occasion to exhibit specimens of this variety 

 at five or six fairs and conventions this fall, and, in all cases, 

 have been pretty hardly drawn upon by my pomological 

 friends for " specimens to take home." Under all these cir- 

 cumstances, thee will readily perceive that I could not do 

 justice by the variety in sending this lot of specimens. 



I have been at some pains, by a careful examination of 

 large numbers of specimens when gathering them, to select 

 a fair average fruit, both in respect to size and shape, for the 

 purpose of getting a true average outline of the variety, a 

 copy of which is herewith sent. This fine variety is all 

 which it has been represented ; there is certainly no other 

 sweet apple of its season, which approaches it in value, and 

 it cannot be beat by any sweet apple of any season. — Yours, 

 J. Battey, KeeseviUe, N. Y., October 23, 1850. 



