and is also liiglily esteemed fcr home use, pai-ticularly for culinary purposes. The 
large fruit is atti'active, and when fully ripe it is mottled and splashed over a consid-. 
arable portion of its surface with light and dark red. It is a September apple, buj 
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 
hi 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. 
In a later letter to us Professor Beach says, "I am glad you are disposed to take 
hold of this variety and push it. I believe it is a good thing and see no reason why 
the Hitchings will not maintain itself under propagation." 
In the issue of The Rural Netv Yorker of September 30, 1911, Mr. Collingwood 
says, "Last week at Syracuse I saw the new Apple { Hitchings) growing in the Hitch- 
ings orchrad. The tree appears to be just like the Twenty Ounce in shape and size 
but the fruit is quite distinct, being a dark red with most of the stripes obscured in 
the solid color. The flavor appears to be superior to the ordinary Twenty Ounce." 
HITCHINGS 
(Red Twenty Ounce) 
EARLY BEARING QUALITIES. 
The original tree has been planted Nine years next spring, (1912) it began bear- 
ing the Fifth year after planting and has fruited abundantly every year since. Mr 
Hitchings grafted several trees to this variety and all these grafts showed beautiful 
specimens of well developed fruit the Second year after grafting. 
SIZE. ^< 
The Hitchings is large to very large. 
SEASON and QUALITY. 
About two weeks later than typicaj|pwenty Ounce and superior in quality. 
A PRIZE WINNER. 
It was a prize winner at the New York §^tiUc Fuir lOlU for the best new apple 
shown for the first time. 
