452 DESCEiPTioiirs op apples. 



ed, tender, melting, juicy ; Flavor rich sub-acid ; Quality 



Fig. 105.— PRESS BWING. 



nearly first rate ; Use for table in December and January. 



This beautiful table apple was first brought to public 

 notice by Geo. Powers, of Pei-rysburgh, Ohio. He exhib- 

 ited specimens at the Toledo meeting of tlie Ohio Pomo- 

 logical Society in January, 1864, but the fruit was over 

 ripe ; at the State Fair at Dayton, Ohio, October 16th, it 

 was shown in perfection of beauty and excellence, and 

 •was then examined by the Society, who commended it 

 highly, and being satisfied that it was an original seedling, 

 its local name. Miner's Apple, was then changed to Pow- 

 ers, in honor of the pomologist who had brought it into 

 notice. 



The tree appears to have been an accidental seedling, 

 which sprang up in the town of Perrysburgh, where it 

 grew almost without care until it fruited a few years ago, 

 and attracted the attention of Mr. Powers. 



The fruit is large and fair, round, somewhat flattened, 

 and sometimes rather conic, generally regular, but large 



