The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-03-24
NOW coRELEss APPLE,

After Years OF Experiment, q New
seedless Fruit Has Been Produced.
The coreless apple has been pro-
duced and it is full of possibilities.
The new fruit is regarded as ''the
worlds greatest discovery in horticul-
ture," says writer in the Nineteenth
Century and After, and in fruit-grow-
ing circles is called 'the wonder Of the
age"
Its flavor Is beyond question II It
proves as large as its rivals trees pro-
ducing, the new wonder, which is n
winter variety, will be planted by tho
million in the commercial fruit fields
at home and abroad. There Is little
likelihood Of its impeding the profita-
BILE sale Of ordinary apples of high
grade.
The new apple, which is both core
less and seedless, was introduced. by
an old fruit raiser. For twelve years
he experimental TO obtain the fruit.
{ The. tree is described as blossom
less, the only thing resembling a bios
som being small cluster Of tiny
green leaves which grow around the
newly formed apple and shelter It. Be
ing devoid Of blossoms, it is claimed
that the fruit offers no effective hiding
place in which the Goblin moth may
lay its eggs, which 1t usually does in
the open eye Of the fruit. Moreover,
there Is nothing to fear from frosts
The color Of the new apple is red,
dotted with yellow on the skin. As
with the seedless orange, so with the
seedless apple, slightly hardened
substance makes Its appearance at the.
navel end. But this can be obliterated
by culture. The originator of the core
less apple states that the further I'VE
get from the original five trees the
larger and better the fruits become In
every way"
Apple culture is more important
even than orange culture. In the Uni
ted States there are 200 1000. 600 apple
trees in bearing, from which 25O,OOO,-
600 bushels of fruit are annually har-
vested. In ten years these three will
give a yield Of 4OO. 900, 900 bushels.
j At the present time the apple con-
sumption of the United States is eighty
poundsa head Of the population year.
BY bushel measure the Americas ap-
| pie crop Is four times greater than the
entire wheat yield of Great Britain
and Ireland
! Billions Of apple trees are grown in
the orchards Of the world, and millions
of them are still being planted each
year. The apple imports of Great
Britain alone range between 4,5O0,O 600
and 100000 hundredweight. In ad-
dition, the writer estimates the census
of our apple trees at 20,OOO,OO0."
There are now 1900 Of these core
less apple trees available for propasa-
ton to supply the orchards OF the
world. 1t is estimated that by 1906
100000 of these trees will be put up
on the market.
p The Spencer apple Is not the first
seedless apple that has been grown.
During the last sixty years about half
a dozen such claimants have made
their appearance. Mn no instance
was it found possia- to reproduce
trees from them whz(h would bear
! seedless apples.
Though no blossom is at any time
! visible on the Spencer seedless apple
trees, when budded or grated they In
sure trees that will produce coreless
apples. They are great bearers, and
crop freely in any country where the
ordinary apple tree will fruit.
In 1925 Able D. Dupuy, professor
Of natural history at Auch, drew atten.
ton to the Bon Chretien d'Auch pear,
which produced fruit without seeds
though when removed to another 10
cality the seeds reappeared in the fruit
in the usual way. This fact up tc
that period had led the fruit-tree dis
tributers to treat the pear in one local
ity as the Bon Chretin dAuch and In
another district is the Winter Bon
Chretin. But the Spencer apple re-
mains seedless in any soil.
The coreless apple will produce al
great a sensation when brought before
the public MS the seedless orange did 9
few years ago. The orange is a lux
ury; the aromatic apple has become ar
.h- @1..Ao