ow more about them. This variety
came before the public with a "hurrah," and people were told it was an
apple with the quality of Winesap and the vigor of Ben Davis.

Mrs. A. Z. Moore (Missouri): My husband and I superintended sixty acres.
We grew 500 bushels of them, all very fine. Of the tree I know little,
but the apples were beautiful. They are of dark color and very handsome.

B. F. Smith: Two years ago I was down the Port Arthur road, and saw
some, and they were fine-looking apples; but on testing it I thought
many others were better, though in the general trade I think it will do
well. We have a few trees and they are rapid growers, but I would not
recommend them for flavor.

Mr. Adams: I can give you no particular information on this apple, but
believe in the right location it is as fine as any grown. Location has
much to do with its success.

Walter Wellhouse: I examined some Mammoth Black Twigs in Leavenworth,
and they were of good size--as large as any Winesap I ever saw, and of
good color.

L. D. Buck: It is a hardy grower. This year it is small.

PECK'S PLEASANT.

_Synonym_: Waltz Apple.

A first-rate fruit in all respects, belonging to the Newtown Pippin
class. It has long been cultivated in Rhode Island (where, we think, it
originated) and in the northern part of Connecticut, and deserves
extensive dissemination. It considerably resembles the Yellow Newtown
Pippin, with more tender flesh, and is scarcely inferior to it in
flavor. The tree is a moderate, upright, spreading grower, but bears
regularly and well, and the fruit commands a high price in the market.
The apples on the lower branches of old trees are flat, while those on
the upper branches are nearly conical. Young shoots reddish brown,
slightly downy. Fruit above medium size, roundish, a little ribbed, and
slightly flattened, with an indistinct furrow on one side. Skin smooth,
and, when first gathered, green, with a little dark red; but when ripe a
beautiful clear yellow, with bright blush on the sunny side and near the
stalk, marked with scattered gray dots. The stalk is peculiarly fleshy
and flattened, short, and sunk in a wide, rather wavy cavity. Calyx
woolly, sunk in a narrow, abruptly and pretty deeply sunk basin. Flesh
yellowish, fine grained, juicy, crisp and tender, with a delicious, high
aromatic, sprightly subacid. Very good or best. November to March.

Remarks on Peck's Pleasant by members of the State Horticultural
Socie