THE HITCHINGS APPLE 
" riia vast mimbor of varieties of Apples and the improbability of finding a r.ew 
variety of commercial value made us hesitate to introduce a new apple but after care- 
fully examining it and advising with Professor Beach of Iowa Experiment Stalicn, 
and with Mr. Collingwood of the Rural New Yorker, both ot whom thought it well 
worthy ot dissemination, we have decided to introrluee the Hitchings New Red Twenty 
Ounce. From our personal knowledge of this variety, after watching its behavior for 
tvi'o years we believe we are adding to our list of commercial varieties ai other reliable 
acquisition. If you will picture to yourself a Red Twenty Ounce you will conceive 
wliat this means on the market. 
With the full permission of Professor Beach we are copying from his Rural New 
Yorker article ot 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- 
fo-isor Beach, the well known author of "The Apples of New York." 
" THE HITCHINGS APPLE 
" A New Sport of The Twenty Ounce ' 
"A new sport of the Twenty Ounce applf is found in the (U'cbard of Grant G. 
Hitchings, about 10 miles soutli of Syracuse, N. Y. This sport is so distinct in color 
from the typical Twenty Ounce t hat if judged by its outward appearance only, it 
