THE APPLE-TREE. 71 



Forsytli's list, published in 1 803, comprises over 200 varieties 

 with winsome titles, most of which have dropped into oblivion. 



In this Catalogue and other works frequent reference is 

 made to Cornish Apples, from which it may be reasonably con- 

 cluded that in spite of wild coast and barren moorland, there is 

 a something in the Cornish vales, and in the softer clime, 

 favourable to the development of the apple. 'Tis true this fruit 

 will grow in higher latitudes than any other ; so far north indeed 

 as Drontheim in Norway, say 65°, or it has been observed to 

 grow wherever the oak will flourish. 



But then the apples of these high latitudes are crabbed, 

 and hard and small. There is in this respect a very striking 

 difference between the south and north shores of our own county. 



Both apples and plums are grown in some of the many 

 valleys flanking the N. Coast of Cornwall, but they are not 

 comparable to those which gather the rays of the sun on the 

 banks of the Fowey and the Fal. 



The apple tree is found in the higher regions of Palestine, 

 but it finds a very genial home indeed in the mountainous and 

 fertile island of Euboea in the Grrecian Archipellago. 



Perhaps some of the largest Apples ever brought across the 

 Western Main was a private sample which reached Truro this 

 winter from beyond the Rocky Mountains, the first fruits of the 

 untamed lands of Oregon, where, in that new Hesperia, we may 

 suppose majestic orchards of colossal trees slope to the setting 

 sun. 



Hot summer climes like Canada and the United States, 

 mature apples to a great size and beauty. And supreme among 

 all the many varieties,according to a general concensus of opinion, 

 is the Newtown Pippin, an American sort mentioned in Forsyth's 

 catalogue in the beginning of the century, and said to have 

 originated in Devonshire. But sooth to say many men have 

 many tastes, and the Eibston, the Woodstock, the Grolden 

 Pippin, the Nonpareil, the Sop in Wine, and the Cornish Gilly- 

 flower have all been classed Al ; and but a few days since an 

 elderly gentleman declared to the writer of this paper that Cox's 

 Orange Pippin excelled the lot ! 



