This is an old American apple. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island, U. S., and was introduced to this country about the middle of the last century. I find it was cultivated in the Brompton Park nursery so early as 1768, under the name of “Newtown Pippin from New York.” Forsyth remarks that it is said to have been originally from Devonshire, but if it were so, there would still have been some trace of it left in that county. It is extensively cultivated in New York, and all the middle states, and particularly on the Hudson, where the finest American orchards are. There are immense quantities produced which are packed in barrels and exported to Britain and other parts. The month of January, is generally the season they arrive in this country, and then they are the most attractive of all dessert apples in Covent Garden market; the name serving in many instances, as a decoy for the sale of many other and inferior varieties. The Alfriston, in many collections, is erroneously cultivated under the name of Newtown Pippin. 242. NEWTOWN SPITZENBERG.--Coxe. IDENTIFICATION.--Coxe. View. 126. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 791. Lind. Guide, 55. Down. Fr. Amer. 139. SYNONYMES.--Matchless, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 1. 397. Burlington Spitzenberg, _acc. Coxe Cult_ 126. English Spitzemberg, _Ibid._ FIGURES.--Pom. Mag. t. 144. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. x. f. 3. Fruit, above medium size, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and a quarter deep; roundish, regularly and handsomely formed, a little flattened, somewhat resembling a Nonesuch. Skin, smooth, at first pale-yellow tinged with green, but changing to a beautiful clear yellow, on the shaded side; but of a beautiful clear red streaked with deeper red, on the side next the sun, and strewed with numerous small, russety dots. Eye, open, set in a wide, and even basin. Stalk, short and stout, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish, firm, rich and pleasantly flavored. An American dessert apple, very pretty, and handsome; of good quality, but only second-rate; it is in use from November to February. This variety originated at Newtown on Long Island U. S. It received the name of Matchless, from the late William Cobbett, who sold it under that name. 243. NEW YORK PIPPIN.--Lind. IDENTIFICATION.--Lind, Plan. Or. Lind. Guide, 76.