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Any man, who plants an orchard, can easily make a plat of it, with a list of the varieties, and their places and the corresponding numbers attached, in the same manner as in the foregoing. Or, if he likes it better, he can make his plat upon a scale large enough to be enabled to write the name of each kind in full opposite its place, as the names of towns are upon maps. The following will illustrate this mode:

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After all, perhaps this will be nothing new to your readers. It is not original with me; nor can I tell whence I derived it. Of course, it will be understood that the top of the map should be north, as mine is, or that the points of the compass should be in some other way ascertained.

Should any of your Boston friends take a fancy to the orchard, of which the section before described is a part, I will sell the farm upon which it is situated, containing one hundred and eighty-five acres of good land without a stone upon

it as big as your fist, at the exceedingly low price, as they would consider it, of four thousand dollars. But, as they can buy, in this neighborhood, any quantity of land equally good and well improved, but without the orchard, at much lower rates, I do not think any of them will be found to take me up, so that I may rest easy. These last two sentences, you will say, are not very germane to the subject.

Coshocton, Ohio, February 5th, 1847.

ART. IV. Descriptions and Engravings of Three New Apples. By the EDITOR.

AT page 70, we commenced a series of articles in which it is our object to describe and figure all the fine varieties of apples which appear deserving of cultivation, in the same manner in which we have figured upwards of seventy-five varieties of pears. The apple is the great staple fruit of our country, and it is to be regretted that so little has been done to make known the best kinds, or to set aright the numerous errors in nomenclature which abound in our Catalogues and Treatises on Fruit.

To attempt this object will be our endeavor in this article: all the new and choice kinds which are, from time to time, brought into notice, will be accurately described and figured, while, at the same time, we shall not neglect a full account of the older and proved sorts, giving the synonyms under which many of them are cultivated, and other particulars relative to their growth, the soils to which they are best adapted, &c.

We shall continue the numeral order of the varieties, commencing with the article referred to.

IV. EARLY JOE.

In our last volume, (XII, p. 474,) under our Pomological Notices, we briefly described this new apple, (fig. 15,) and we have but little to add now to the account we then gave of it, except a more full description. Mr. Bissell of Rochester, who sent us some fine specimens, gives us the following par

ticulars:"Some of the delicious seedling apples of the Valley of the Genesee have been extensively noticed and dissem

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Fig. 15. Early Joe.

inated a few yet remain to enrich the Pomology of less favored regions among us, at the head of which should stand the Early Joe. We send you herewith some specimens of fruit of the ordinary size for your opinion and notice, should you think it worthy. When neglected, the tree bears every other year enormous crops, of the size and quality of these, but, with proper care in trimming out, they will attain to nearly double the size. The tree grows slowly; the wood is slim; the bark dark-colored, and the green of the foliage is deep and rich. It was called the Early Joe, because a fellow named Joe for some time stole the apples early in the morning, before the family that owned the orchard were up, and only desisted after the hired man had cut 'Early Joe' in the bark of every tree. The parent tree grew in the orchard of Mr. Oliver Chapin of Bloomfield, Ontario County, in the same orchard with the Northern Spy, and is, we believe, still alive." To this we have only to add, that the variety is really a very good fruit; its only objection, if it may be called one, to its ranking among the best fruits, is its rather small size. It is a handsome apple, with a deep red skin and a very tender flesh. Size, medium, about two inches and a half broad, and two deep: Form, oblate, slightly rounding towards the crown: Skin, smooth, dull yellow, nearly covered with distinct stripes of dark purplish red, interspersed with numerous whitish

specks: Stem, medium length, about half an inch, rather slender, and deeply inserted in a round, narrowed cavity: Eye, medium size, closed, and considerably sunk in an open, rather broad hollow; calyx, short: Flesh, white, slightly tinged with pink, fine, and very tender: Juice, plentiful, pleasantly acid and good: Core, rather large. Ripe in August, and keeps two or three weeks.

V. FALL JENNETTING.

Another variety received from the same source as the above. It was brought into the vicinity of Rochester about twenty years ago, from Athens, on the Hudson, but it does not appear to be described by any of our writers on Fruits. Mr. Bissell states that the trees grow very rapidly, and bear every alternate year enormously. The general appearance of the Fall Jennetting, (fig. 16,) is much like the Rhode Island Greening;

Fig. 16. Fall Jennetting.

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Size, large, about three and a half inches broad, and three deep: Form, roundish, flattened, somewhat ribbed at the base, and narrowing to the eye: Skin, fair, smooth, pale greenish yellow, broadly tinged with deep blush on the sunny side, and thinly and irregularly sprinkled with dark russety specks: Slem, short, about half an inch, slender, and deeply inserted in a rather contracted, funnel-shaped cavity: Eye, small, closed, and moderately sunk in a small, round basin: segments of the calyx, long, twisted: Flesh, yellowish white, fine, very tender: Juice, abundant, pleasant and sprightly, with a fine perfume: Core, small, hollow: Seeds, small, angular, full. Ripe in November.

VI. MARSTON'S RED WINTER. Kenrick's Amer. Orchardist. Mr. Kenrick, in his American Orchardist, briefly describes this new apple (fig. 17). It originated in Greenland, N. H.,

Fig. 17. Marston's Red Winter.

and fine specimens were sent us in the winter of 1845 and '46, by Mr. Norton of that place; those of the last year were not equal in size to those of the year previous, owing to the very dry summer, but they were equally high-colored and beautiful. At first sight, they somewhat resemble the Baldwin, but upon

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