HIGHEI.L'S MATCETEEgS, 
he name of Hignell, as an industrious or- 
chardist, has, for many years, been -well known 
in the northern part of Gloucestershire, he hav- 
resided at Tewkesbury. He raised numei’- 
ous seedlings of Apples, Pears, Potatoes, &c. ; 
and thereby may be looked back upon as a 
praiseworthy contributor to the advancement of that portion of 
horticulture to which he was attached. He died in 1849; but 
some of his productions will long exist to perpetuate his name. 
The Apple which we now publish was raised from seed by 
him, which, according to his own statement, was sown in 1825, 
and came into bearing at ten years old. He placed a very high 
estimate on its qualities, as a dessert Apple, and felt no little 
gratification in the possession, as he expressed himself, of a 
fruit superior to any produced by his neighbours. Some allow- 
ance must generally be made for “parental partiality;” itis, 
however, deserving of cultivation, and it should not be forgotten 
by those who plant for the benefit of future generations, that 
the tree is really a “young” one; and being now healthy, is 
