HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 159 



From Charles Kessler, of Beading— The Speckled Oley— from Oley 

 Township, Berks County, Pa. This Apple is said to be beautiful when in 

 perfection, and usually one-third larger than the specimens sent to us. 

 Size two and a half inches by two and tive-eighths ; roundish ; striped and 

 mottled with red on a greenish yellow ground, and thickly covered with 

 large white dots, most of which contain a russet speck in the centre ; stem 

 three eighths of an inch long, by one-tenth thick, inserted in a very narrow, 

 acute cavity, sometimes russetted; calyx small, set in a shallow, furrowed 

 basin ; seed long and of a light yellowish brown color ; flesh rather dry and 

 mealy, but with a pleasant flavor ; being over-ripe, an accurate judgment 

 could not be formed of its quality. 



From Charles Kessler, of Beading — A large greenish yellow Apple, 

 with a faint brown cheek; roundish, inclining to conical, and somewhat an- 

 gular ; stem short, rather stout, and fleshy at its junction with the branch ; 

 cavity acute, narrow, russetted in the rays ; calyx small ; basin moderately 

 deep, not wide, furrowed; flesh tender, juicy; as the specimens were over- 

 ripe, the quality could not be accurately ascertained. 



From Charles Kessler, of Beading — Newtown Pippin, from Berks 

 County ; large ; roundish oblong ; greenish yellow, with faint broad stripes 

 of red on the side exposed to the sun. Not true to name, and not equal in 

 quality to the genuine Newtown Pippin. 



From Mr. Slingluff. — Beautiful specimens of pears-, from a tree pur- 

 chased for the Catillac, but which proves to be Uvedales St. Germain. The 

 latter is distinguished from the former in being pyriform ; while the Catillac 

 is broadly turbinate. Both are valuable only for culinary purposes, and 

 one of them (Uvedale's St. Germain) is familiar to us under the name of 

 Found Fear. 



From Jonathan Baldwin, of Downingtown. — Pears labelled St* Grermain; 

 which we regard as not true to name. They were not in good condition when 

 received, and we were consequently unable to test their quality. Mr. Bald- 

 win, however, who is a distinguished pomologist, has expressed so favorable 

 an opinion of the variety ? that we have drawn up the following description 

 of it, from the specimens he sent us : large ; obovate pyriform : greenish 

 yellow, with a brownish red cheek ; stem an inch long by one-sixth thick y in- 

 serted without depression ; calyx set in a deep, narrow, sometimes wide ba- 

 sin ; seed very large ; flesh yellowish white, juicy ; specimens not in a con- 

 dition for us to determine the flavor and quality. 



From Br. Bertolet, of Oley Township, Berks County, Pa., through 

 Charles Kessler, of Reading. — The Boas Apple, which was introduced into 

 Oley, about fifty years ago, by the Rev. Mr. Boas, of Reading, from Exe- 

 ter Township, where it is known as the Kelter: Medium size; roundish ob- 

 late ; deep crimson in stripes of different hues, with one or more whitish 

 yellow blotches near the base, sometimes only faintly striped with red on a 

 greenish yellow ground ; stem very short and thick, inserted in a moderately 



