Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-04-15
A Seedless, COreleSs,
BIOomleSS Apple

Everyone is familiar with the seed.
less or navel orange, but the seedless
apple is new fruit on the market.
This marvellous Improvement in the
common apple, fulfilling in letter as
well as in spirit the Jest of the school.
boy, who proclaimed that there amt
going to be no CORE would seem to
indicate that the new apple will even.
tually monopolze the markets of the
world, for reasons which the appended
data clearly point out.
BY way OF illustration, II may be said
that the seedless and coreless apple
follows closely the analogue presented
by the seedess orange, and is in fact
prototype OF the latter. When the
needless orange was introduced to the
public, 1t was regarded in the light of
horticultural wonder. for IL there
were no seeds, by what uncanny meth.
cd was their kind propagated.
Shrouded in a mystery such as this,
Il required some little time for the mat.
ter.Of.faCt virtues to impress them.
selves and the real merits of the fruit
to become known: but once eaten. its
subtle qualities were forgotten, and its
advantages were quickly appreciated.
and from that day to this the old.
fashioned variety, with its multiplicity
of seeds, has suffered severely, having
been almost driven from the market,
and left all but out of the race. Now
let us ascertain the real difference be.
tween the two varieties of the oranges,
as the comparison will serve a useful
purpose when the old and the new
species of apples are being similarly
considered. The reason seedless
oranges are universally preferred to
those that contain ovules is not be.
cause any saving is effected, but sim.
ply that the seeds are in the way. The
ordinary apple presents wholly diff
ferent aspect, for the seeds are inclos-
ed In hard pockets that represent at
least one.fourth of the apple, and which
cannot be utilized in any way as an
article OF food whereas in the seedlcss
variety these disagreeable features are
entirely eliminated. Still, what Is more
out seeds are also worthless, for IL Is
well known to growers that worms In
apples obtain their sustanance not from
the meat. but from the seeds; hence
Il Is evident that II n worm was hatch
ed in seedless apple, II could not
1--WE.
The beginning of the seedless apple
np'u fart nj
fore its history ia necessarily brief.
All the credit for the propagation OF
the apple thus far belongs to Mr. John
+, Spencer, of Grand Junction. Col.
who, struck with the success of the
seedless orange, believed that similar
results could be obtained with apples.
After several years experimental re.
search he succeeded in producing five
trees that bore seedless, coreless, and
worthless apples, and from this little
q group there has budded two thousand
: more trees, which a present constitute
! the entire seedless apple stock of the
world; and from these two thousand
. trees all the rest of the world must
+ be supplied. II Is estimated that these
, will have produced about three hun.
. dred and seventy.fye thousand nursery
! trees by the fall Of 1905, and that the
following year at least two Inilion
I 1--WE hundred thousand trees will fur.
j ulsh the supply.
There are many striking PECULIAR.
i ties in the development Of the seedloss
< tree, as well as in the fruit As an
u instance, It may be cited that the tree
J. Is blossomloss; and while there Is a
u stamen and very small quantity OF
u pollen, exactly as In the blossom OF
=, the ordinary apple tree, yet the bios
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p photograph shows the only bloom, flow
J, or, or blossom that ever appears on the
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