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lired and forty-three kinds; and the American Pomological So- ' 



ciety in 1877, approves for culture three hundred and twenty- 

 two apples and thirteen crabs. 



Seedless apples were known to the ancient Greeks', and the 

 Romans/ called such the spadonitim of the Belgae. In the j 



twelfth century, Ibn-al-awam^, a Moorish-Spaniard, cites Abou'l- 

 Khari, of Seville, who describes the Schahaly apple as produc- 

 ing no flowers, and the fruit containing no seed. C^-mei'^nus^ 



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in 1588, mentions apples without seed, but also quotes Thro- 

 phrastus; Bauhin,^ in 1623, quotes Camerarius, and the apple 

 not flowering, yet fruit-bearing of Gesner, which doubtless was 

 seedless." Parkinson,^ in 1629, speaks of the " apple without 

 bloom" neither a good eating nor baking fruit, and in 1640^, 

 speaks of the Poma nana, the same name Camerarius uses, as 

 having no kernels within the core. In 1650 we have Gesner 

 and Camerarius quoted by John Bauhin, the former describing 

 his tree in the vicinity of Tiguri, the latter as Poma nana, and a t 



wood-cut of the Mains non Jlorida dicta, which he states is wont 

 to be seedless.® This same figure, not accurately copied, is given 

 by Jonston"^ in 1662, who apparently had not seen the variety, 

 and a better copy by Chabraeus''' who claims to have seen the 

 fruit in the garden under charge of J. Bauhin ; he calls it Mains 

 noil Jlorida dicta. Gall. Pomrnier sans Jleur. In 1665 the Hort. ^ 



Reg. Paris, as quoted by Miller'' had the Malus frl^ctifera, flare 

 fugaci^ or fig apple. He had not seen a specimen himself, but 

 refers to a letter written from New England by Paul Dudley, and 

 published in the Phil. Trans. No. 385, as being of this kind. This 

 letter^^ says, " This tree was no graft, and the fruit but ordinary 



iTheoph. de caus. pL lib. 3 c. 23. 

 2PUuy, lib. XV. c. 15. 



1864, i. 308. 



gric. d' Ibn-al-awam. Trad, par J. J. Clement Mullett. Paris, 



4 Cam. Ilort. 1588, 95, « 



5 Bauh. pin, 1623, 433. 



6 Park. par. 1629, 5SS. 



7 Park, theat. 1640, 1502, 



■ 3 J. P>auh. Ilist. 1650. i. 22. 

 gjonston, dend. 1662, p. 2, t. 2* 



loChatraeus, stirp. sciag. 1677, p. i ; also ed. of 1666, p. i. 



11 Miller, Card, Diet, 1731, art. malus. 



12 Phil. Trans. 1724, 200. 



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