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LXXXVII. Account and Description of a New Seedling 

 Apple, called the Martin Nonpareil. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. By John Williams, Esq. Corresponding 

 Member of the Horticultural Society. 



Read December 7th, 1819. 



Dear Sir, 



By the Worcester mail of to-day I send you a box, con- 

 taining specimens of a Seedling Apple for the Horticultural 

 Society. 



The tree from which the Apples were taken, was obtained 

 from a nursery, as an ungrafted stock, about twenty-five 

 years ago, by the Rev. George Williams of Martin Hus- 

 singtree, near Worcester, and planted in his orchard, where it 

 has borne large crops of fruit for some years past : the ex- 

 cellence of this Apple induced me to ask Mr. Williams 

 for some specimens, to be sent to the Horticultural Society ; 

 they were sent to me one day too late for your first November 

 meeting. 



I consider the Martin Nonpareil to be an Apple of very 

 superior merit, as a dessert fruit, and if preserved from the 

 effects of frost and exposure to air, it will keep perfectly 

 sound, and afford a supply for the table from December till 

 Midsummer. Mr. Williams gave me six of these Apples 

 in October last, in a perfectly sound state, plump, and by no 

 means withered, which were gathered in October 1818; three 

 of these Apples I have sent you ; they are now, however 



