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H. S. WILEY & SON, CAYUGA, N. Y. 
THE HITCHINGS APPLE 
With the full permission of Professor Beach we are copying from his Rural New 
Yorker article of November 19, 1910, such points as pertain to the Hitchings New Red 
Twenty Ounce. We believe we could not look for higher authority on apples than Pro- 
fessor Beach, the well known author of "The Apples of New York." 
"A Sport of the Twenty Ounce" 
"A sport of the Twenty Ounce apple is found in the orchard of Grant G. Hitchings, 
about ten miles south of Syracuse, N. Y. This sport is so distinct in color from the 
typical Twenty Ounce that if judged by its outward appearance only, it might readily 
pass for a different variety. I am therefore proposing for it the simple name 'Hitch- 
mgs." Mr. Hitchings' name has already become a household word among apple grow- 
ers, being associated with his sod mulch system of orchard management which in recent 
years has been the subject of much discussion in horticultural meetings and by the horti- 
cultural press, particularly in the apple regions east of the Rocky Mountains." 
"The Hitchings is decidedly superior to the Collamer in color, and differs from it in 
that it shows no stripes, but the red appears as a solid unbroken color, which in the 
highly-colored specimens nearly or quite covers the entire fruit, as is the case in a highly- 
colored Baldwin. Like the Collamer, the Hitchings differs somewhat from the typical 
Twenty Ounce in being rather more regular in shape; if ribbed at all it is less distinctly 
ribbed than the Twenty Ounce. In texture, flavor and quality the Hitchings would 
readily pass for the Twenty Ounce of similar size and degree of ripeness. Mr. Hitchings 
reports that it is at least two weeks later in season than the Twenty Ounce. At the New 
York State Fair in 1910 it was awarded first prize as the best new apple shown the first 
time." 
"The original Hitchings Twenty Ounce was obtained as one of a hundred Twenty- 
Ounce nursery trees purchased from H. S. Wiley & Son, and planted in the orchard 
seven years ago. This tree bears the highly colored type of fruit which we are calling 
the Hitchings, while the other Twenty Ounce trees from the same lot of nursery stock 
produce only the ordinary type of the Twenty Ounce. * * * " 
"The original Twenty Ounce was first brought to the notice of pomologists about 
70 years ago. It has been locally known under the various synonyms of Cayuga Red 
Streak, Wine Apple and Limber Twig. It is one of the most satisfactory of the Fall 
apples for commercial planting in the various parts of New York and adjoining states 
and is also highly esteemed for home use, particularly for culinary purposes. The large 
fruit is attractive, and when fully ripe it is mottled and splashed over a considerable 
portion of its surface with light and dark red. It is a September apple, but with proper 
handling may often be kept into early winter. * * * There appears no good reason 
why the Hitchings should not supersede the old Twenty Ounce, since it is so much 
superior to it in color and may properly be regarded as closely identical with it in other 
respects, with the exception of the slight difference in shape and in season of ripening 
as above mentioned." — S. A. Beach, Iowa Experiment Station. 
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