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them in water colors with wonderful fidelity to nature, and with
such delicacy to touch, and such genuine artisitc sense of color,
that it is greatly to be regretted that these evidences of early
American art have not seen the light in the form originally intended.
It was my good fortune to be allowed to examine these
representations of fruits, so interesting as a relic of the "Father
of American Pomology,” as I think Mr. Coxe should ever be called.
They are handsomely bound in book form, in red morocco. Each painting 
has been cut out of the Bristol-board on which it had been originally 
drawn, and was fastened upon the leaves of the book; and over
each was printed, with the pen, in a delicate female hand, the name
of the fruit portrayed.  To show what a handsome and most valuable
work Mr. Coxe would have published, had his designs been accomplished,
I give below a list of the colored illustrations, in the order in
which they are painted, that were prepared by his daughters for the
proposed publication.  The names of some of the apples, I think, will
be new to many of your readers.  I give the spelling of each fruit as
I found them in manuscript, attached, as already mentioned, to each
colored representation.  The following are the apples represented:

"Yellow Junating; Margaret or Red Junating; Red or Prince's
Junating; Woolman's Harvest; Bough; Summer Rose; Summer Queen; Hagloe Crab; Rambour d’Eté or Summer Rambour; Summer Pearmain or White’s
Pearmain; Early Reinette or Yellow Harvest; Maiden’s Blush; Paradise
Apple; Codling; Roseau d’Automne; Corlies’ Sweet; Mammoth Redstreak;
American Nonpareil; Catline; Holland or Fall Pippin; Siberian Crab;
Poveshon; Fama Gusta; Rambo; Drap d’Or: Spice; Loan’s English Pearmain; Styre; Gloucester White; Fearn’s Pippin; Wine Apple; Royal
Pearmain; Red Doctor or Dewit; White Doctor; Morgan; English Red
Streak; Winter Pearmain; Sheep Nose or Bullock’s Pippin; Newark King;
Newark Pippin; Wetherill’s White Sweeting; Dominé; Ribstone Pippin;
Golden Reinette; Rhode Island Greening; English Nonesuch; Bellflower;
Jersey Greening; Cider Apple; Black Apple; Dumpling; White Calville;
Pound; Seek-no-further; Kaighn’s Spitzemberg; Newtown Spitzemberg;
Esopus Spitzemberg; Vandervere; Violet; Pennock; Fenouillet Jaune;
Canfield; Gloria Mundi or Monstrous Pippin; Michael Henry Pippin;
Aunt Apple; Shippen Russeting; Royal Russet; Ruckman's or Golden
Pearmain; Orange Apple; Hewes’ Crab; Roane’s White Crab; Pomme d’Api
or Lady Apple; Harrison; Greyhouse; Winesap; Swaar; Warren Apple;
Irish Apple; Courpendu; Red Calville; Cathead; Brownite; Catsbury;
Wood’s Greening; English Nonpareil; American Pippin; Olive Apple;
Green Newtown Pippin; Yellow Newtown Pippin; Priestly; Quince Apple;
Redling; Cooper’s Russeting; Redstreak of East Jersey; Haute Bonté;
Reinette Grise; Everlasting Hanger; Carthouse; Woodcock; Roman Stem;
        