Some months ago a farmer named Wm. Lagle, of Bradford, Ind., sent me a seedless apple. It was opened at the Farmers' Institute in this county and found seedless, but with a partly formed core. The grower writes that he bought two trees from an Ohio nursery agent, name and location unknown. One tree died, and the other has borne two years. He watched closely for bloom, but failed to find any, and so far not a seed has been found in any of the apples, although many have been opened. In size and appearance the fruit is about the same as the first one in the cut accompanying Mr. Bailey's article in January American Garden. - J. P. Applegate, Indiana.

The Bloomless Apple #1

Discussions and figures of the so-called bloomless apple appeared in this journal for last January and July, 1889. Robert Manning, secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, who called my attention to Duhamel's figure of the Fig apple (p. 7. January issue), has lately placed in my hands an account of the variety by Dr. Diel in his "Kernobstsorten," published in Germany in 1804 (Vol. 8). The character of bloom appears to be the same as in the instances already discussed, but the shape of the apple, if the drawing is correct, is somewhat different from the others. Diel calls the variety "bloomless fig apple" (Fei-genapfel ohne Bluthe), He gives many old references to it, showing that in Europe this singular variation has been many times recorded. Dr. Diel's figure is reproduced here,and may be compared with former prints. In the Gray Herbarium, at Cambridge, I have lately seen flowers of this bloomless apple collected many years ago at Montague, Mass., and Hagerstown, Md. - L. H. Bailey.