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 have worked as a talesman to have been a juror before Judge Fitzgreald. Howgate was brought before Judge Charles Linnaeus Benedict who signed the arrest warrant. "The New York Times" reported Howgate was accused of embezzling $370,000 from the U.S. Government. Found guilty of numerous crimes, Howgate served time in Albany Penitentiary. Upon release in December 1900, Howgate moved to his daughter Ida's home in Washington where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1901. Henry W. Howgate Henry W. Howgate (1834 – June 1, 1901) was an American Army Signal Corps officer and Arctic explorer who embezzled over US$133,000