We find the following in the Delaware Farm and Home:

"The question has, on several occasions, been raised whether the Delaware Winter apple is not a variety known by some other name, and recently it has been asserted that it is probably the Lawver. Both these apples were on exhibition at the State Fair last week, and at the suggestion of J. G. Brown a committee was appointed to examine them. The report is given below:

'Fairview Park, Sept. 30, 1887.

'We, the undersigned, Committee of the Delaware State Fair, appointed to decide upon the identity of the Lawver and the Delaware Winter apples, have carefully examined the specimens on exhibition as such apples, and decide that they are distinct, differing in flavor, shape, color and general appearance.

G. W. Killen, A. L. Hudson, P. Emerson, Committee.'

We understand that Mr. J. G. Brown, mentioned above, and conceded to be one of the best pomo-logists in the State, who would give no opinion one year ago on the vexed question, now regards the apples as distinct.