EMFEKOK ALEXANBEB. 
HIS Apple may indeed be called an Emperor. 
Not one that we have hitherto met with can 
equal it in all its characters. Its magnificent 
size, its handsome shape and colouring, and its 
qualities, both as a culinary and dessert fimit, combine to give 
it superiority over, perhaps it may be timly said, every other 
Aj^ple. We learn from the Transactions of the London Hor- 
ticultural Society, that this Apple was, for the first time, pro- 
minently brought under the notice of English cultivators in 
1817 ; when Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith 
