Measurements of an apple tree of extraordinary size have been furnished by Rev. A. Swartz, Lancaster, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh National Stockman and Farmer. The circumference of the trunk three feet above the ground is nine feet five inches, as measured by Mr. Swartz; and the spread of the branches is thirty-five feet on each side - seventy feet. The tree is considered to be a seedling, with fruit resembling Maiden's Blush in appearance, quality and time of ripening, and might be taken for Maiden's Blush, only that Mr. Swartz is an excellent judge of fruit. The crop in 1888 was thought to be well up toward a hundred bushels. The tree stands on the premises of Henry Ammon, Liberty township, Fairfield county, Ohio.

This account by Mr. Swartz has called forth two others in a subsequent issue of the Stockman and Farmer; the first from Wm. Musser, of Wayne county, Ohio, and the second from S. B. Oakes, of Washington county, Ohio.

Mr. Musser's tree measures ten feet four inches in circumference at one foot from the ground, and nine feet ten and one-half inches at a height of four feet. It is standing on the farm formerly owned by Jacob Tracy, having been brought from Pennsylvania as a two-year old seedling, and planted by Mr. Tracy's father seventy-four years ago.

Mr. Oakes' tree stands near the bank of the Ohio river, where it was planted in 1791 or '92. The circumference of the trunk at the smallest place is twelve feet two inches. It has five principal branches, the largest of which has a circumference of seven feet, and the smallest three feet. This is probably the largest apple tree in the United States if not in the world. It is a seedling and bears well, and the fruit - a large yellow apple, in season from the middle of July to September - is said to be superior to Russet, Belleflower, etc., for cooking. This is high praise; but Mr. Oakes, living as he does in the vicinity of the old Putnam nursery and orchards - the first established in Ohio - writes understandingly. R. J. B.

Apple Trees Of Great Size #1

In the July issue (p. 395) is given notice of several large apple trees, one of them "probably the largest apple tree in the United States, if not in the world." "The circumference of the trunk at the smallest place is twelve feet two inches".

In the Report of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture for 1878 is an account of our Connecticut tree, by N. S. Platt, which is "thought to be the largest in the United States".

Mr. Platt writes in 1878, and as the tree is still vigorous, it must have grown enough to substantiate its claims, "an apple tree in the northwestern part of Cheshire, standing in Mr. Delos Hotchkiss door-yard is thought to be the largest in the United States. Its age can be traced by a family tradition to one hundred and forty years at least, and it may be twenty or twenty-five years older. It is at the present time of symmetrical shape ; the trunk is nearly round, without a scar or blemish on it; there are eight large branches; five of them, Mr Hotchkiss tells me, have been in the habit of bearing one year, and the remaining three the next.

He has gathered in one year from the five branches eighty-five bushels of fruit, and his predecessor had harvested a crop of one hundred and ten bushels from the same five branches. By careful measurement, I find the circumference of the trunk, one foot above the ground, above all enlargements of the roots, to be thirteen feet eight inches. The girth of the largest single limb is six feet eight inches. The height of the tree has been carefully measured and found to be sixty feet, and the spread of the branches as the apples fall, is one hundred feet, or six rods".

The fruit is rather small, sweet and of moderate ex" cellence. - T. S. Gold, West Cornwall, Conn.