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 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 from the U.S. Government. He escaped custody while on trial and evaded the Secret Service and Pinkerton Detective Agency for 13 years, during which time he worked as a reporter and ran a New York bookstore. Howgate was the son of a British shopkeeper. At age 21, Howgate immigrated to the United States and worked as a reporter. In 1866, he married Cordelia Day of Macomb County, Michigan. Howgate and Cordelia had one daughter, born