SHAKSFEME AFFEE 
S ITE very name of Shakspere is interesting to 
j Englishmen ; and the Apple we now make 
* known becomes the more interesting from the 
fact that, like the great dramatist himself, it 
- - owns Stratford-on-Avon for its birth-place. 
Several years ago, before we had thought of publishing finits, 
we were favoured with Apples of this variety, by Thomas Hunt, 
Esq., of Stratford-on-Avon; and, bearing in mind its superior 
quality, we lately applied for, and were generously supplied with, 
specimens of it by W. 0. Hunt, Esq., who succeeded to his 
father’s gardens. At the same time we were anxious to obtain 
information of its origin. Mr. Hunt states that he has heard 
his father mention that he had raised it ,from seed, and he 
believes from that of his favourite, the “Duke of Gloucester,” an 
