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Show I ORTIGULTURE B This Department is .Edited by Prof. " R. Sr. Northrop, State Agri-' 4 I i f . cultural College. v t THEtfJONATftAN APPVLE.) ? A, f fu rpl -'! 0nc ofirthcr leading apples? in ,tncJ K ' 1 ' Si b "" f f ?, Afc H Wst idayis ' the 'Jonathan!;;, TO att?actifccolor alTdhlfhtalifyksr won.jta place on the market which command's a high figure. This fact H ii' . . . H C0UJ1 w,tn 'ts car'y maturity and H productiveness make it a great favor-, H itdPyjth the grower and in consc- J quen&Sit is being more largely plants Hi edfeach year. H Since it is so extensively grown H througout thccntirc Rocky Mountain H country, it may .be ofnntcrest; to the' H manymen who arc. growing it La si well 1 twls? many others" who-dchght in H cdtingfthis fine apple,1 to kridtf sbnW-' H thinjmtf its history and' relationships :v I PT?1C Annlcs of Ncw York," a H boo1publishcd by the New 3rxrkg H StaTeExprer H byefrSf2A?BchchfidThc fol H lowing reference to it: "The first published account which wc. find of the Jonathan" fs that given by Judge J. facjof Albaliy in 1828, iH an article ar-ticle ofi? "0bsiM$iofioi th&Utilftv Rpf ;acsjcriptivs ;Gataloguc job' Garden f nidOrlliarFitlitladaielct to t1ie members of the; New York. Hortictil-plural Hortictil-plural Jo'cicty, 1nf.vjiigh) he presents ''A Descriptive Catalogue of some Jof -the mbt " valuable ,n'pp)cjLpropagated ylmrlhe;nursdnesfof tins State." Hn this catalog the Jonathan is listed' as' the Esopus Spitacnbcrg (Ncw) witH1 the synonym Ulster Seedling. IrSi82p Judge Bacl sent speciments the fruit "to the Massachusetts Hoiuicut-tural Hoiuicut-tural Society with the statement),' that it ''was "An Esopus Seedling;, and -sometimes called -the New Spitzcn ci;g, Ift originated on the farmpf Mr. EhinpicjrdflWbodstockilTs County, Ncw ' "York: Acoordiiig ,',to 1 t A i "I ' ' "' r Downey tthc original tree whs-sti;! ' ahvcin-i84S. - ItVas-at first (Jisscmi- natcd under vainous names, allJTof 'wliich were ' soon' superseded $y$m name Jonathan vhich was assignedzto iL-byJillKC. BclJnJidnor. of Jonathan lJ-Iasbroucliwhojrwhis '' attention was first called to the variety. It has been widely disseminated throughott' h . u t mm the. apple growing regions of New York, but in none of them is it grown extensively. It is extensively planted in regions farther West and South where it is recognized in many localities locali-ties as one of the leading commercial varieties. From this wc sec that while the Jonathan is- a native of Ncw York State, it finds western climates and soils more congenial and here develops de-velops into a stronger and more vigorous vig-orous tree, bearing a larger, han't somcr and more uniform fruit and one which is sought after by the buy- crs". |