Newton Wonder the first Newton Wonder apple was produced. The tree is said to be a cultivar of the Blenheim Orange and the Dumelow's Seedling and in 1915 it was crossed with Blenheim Orange to create the Howgate Wonder. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887. The tree grows well in temperate and wet climates producing a red and green coloured fruit, with a creamy coloured flesh and the fruit tends to be very large in size. The tree is usually late to flower and produces a large crop which should be harvested in the late
Henry W. Howgate to continue scientific studies. Lieutenant Doane placed expedition failure upon the "Gulnare" and reported: Howgate was active in soliciting international support, including with the "Société de Géographie", for the Howgate Plan, his vision of an Arctic colony. Karl Weyprecht, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who co-led, with Julius von Payer, the 1872–1874 Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition that discovered Franz Josef Land made a presentation at the 48th Meeting of German Scientists and Physicians in 1875, where he, too, made recommendations for establishment of fixed Arctic observation stations. Spencer Fullerton Baird, in his 1877 Annual Record of Science and Industry,