On March 9, 1835, Ira Cole wrote to the Yankee Farmer about three new varieties of apple. We publish his description of the Table Greening here:
The Yankee Farmer
No. 6, Vol. 1
Cornish, Maine, March 16, 1835
Mr. Cole, - Agreeably to your request, I improve the first opportunity in describing a few varieties of apples, which I consider among the most valuable.
Table Greening. - This apple, I consider before any other now cultivated, for keeping. The tree is most luxuriant in its growth, handsome in its appearance, acquires an enormous size, and will bear any situation or exposure. 
The fruit is of a very large size, extremely fair, handsome shape, and of a beautiful grass green color, with a purple cheek next the sun. It is in use from April till October, but may be kept two years with common care.
This fruit is coarse grained and extremely crisp, and possesses the very rare and valuable property of keeping a great length of time, without growing insipid, or losing its fine flavor. It is excellent for cooking or for the desert. It bears every year; in alternate years it is a good, though not profuse bearer; but in the intermediate years, it is rather a shy bearer. It originated in a very old orchard which I now own in Cornish. It is as yet but little disseminated. I count it altogether the most valuable apple that I raise, or that I ever have seen.
Yours Respectfully,
IRA COLE
Limerick, Maine, March 9, 1835.
A.J. and Charles Downing identify the Table Greening in the 1900 issue of their classic Fruits and Fruit Trees of America
I suspect there’s some clever marketing going on here in the Yankee Farmer. Perhaps there was a relationship between S.W. Cole, (the “editor and proprietor” of the Yankee Farmer), and Ira Cole, the informant on the Table Greening…Ira is from Limerick, Maine, and states the Table Greening originates from an orchard in Cornish, Maine. Cornish is also the place where the Yankee Farmer is published. A later issue of the Farmer contains the above ad for scions.
