The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-07-22
NOW coRElEss Apple


essdlens Rruit Has I5esn PFoduce1.
The coreleas apple has been pro
duced AID Il II full o. possibilities
The new fruit Is regarded a. tbs
worlds greatest discovery ia horttcul.
fure," says a writer IN the Nineteenth
Century and After, and In fruit-gr0w-
ing circles + called ~tbe wonder d the
age"
Its favor Il beyond question. II Il
proves ne large Is ifs rivals trees pro
ducing the new wonder. which Il
winter variety. win be planted By the
million IN the commercial fruit fields
at home ana abroad There Is little
likelihood of its impeding the pr0ntm-
bic sale % ordinary apples Of high
grade.
The new apple. which II both core
less and seeNess. was introduced ~
an old fruit raiser For twelve years
be experimental 10 obtain the fruit
The tree Il described as biossogn-
less, the only thing resembling bios
sem being a small cluster u tiny
green leaves which grow around tkss
newly formed apple and shelter It Be
ing devoid Of blossoms. II II claimed
that the fruit offers no effective hiding
place in which the Goblin moth may
lay It's eggs, which It usually does in
the open eye Of the fruit Moreoyer.
there Ia nothing to fear from frOgt&
The color Of the new apple Is red
dotted with yellow on the skin. A.
with the eeedless orange. 80 with the
seedless apple. . slightly hardened
substance makes it's appearance nt the
navel end. But this can be obliteratsd
BY culture. The originator OF the core
Iese apple states that the further '.we
get from the original hve trees kae
larger and better the fruits become To
every way
Apple culture "a more Important
even than orange culture In the Uni
ted States there are 200 ,O00. 900 apple
trees in bearing, from which 80. %
900 bushels Of fruit are annually har-
| vested In ten years these three viii
give q yield OF 1O0. 900. 900 bushels.
At the present time the apple CON
sumption Of the United States Is eighty
poundsn head Of the population q year.
BY buGhel measure the American ap-
Die crop Is -four times greater than tn
entire wheat yield Of Great Britain
and Ireland
Billions Of apple trees are grown II
the orchards q the world. and millions
) Of them are still being planted each
: year. The apple imports 81 Greal
, Britain alone range between 4.5Oo. 00(
and 5000. 900 hundredweight In Ga
n dltson, the writer estimates the cenzul
. OF cur apple trees at 20.O00.Oo0.
a There are now 1000 Of these core
) less apple trees available for propagn
don to supply the orchards o. tn
:. world II Is estimated that by 100
4 10000 Of these trees VIII be put up
a on the market
!. The Spencer apple Il not the fra
aeedless apple that has been grown
Is During the last sixty years about hal
10 A dozen such claimants have mad
~ their appearance But IN no instanc
e was II found possible to reproduc
Of trees from them which would ben
d. seedless apples.
TX Though no blossom is at any tim
rg visible on the Spencer seedless app
p trees. when budded or grated they q
se sure trees that win produce eoreie.
apples. They are great bearers, an
70 crop freely In any country where a
., ordinary apple tree win fruit
an In 1876 Able d Dupuy. profess
en- OF natural history at Auch. drew atte
rs ton 10 the Bon Chretien dAuch pea
ne which produced fruit without seed
a4e though when removed 70 another
lot cality the seeds reappeared In the fry
in the usual way. This fact up
o. that period had led the fruit-tree a
ne tributers to treat the pear in one loci
" ity as the Bon Chretin d'Aueh and
aal another district Is the Winter b
ald Chretin. But the Spencer apple :
eel mains seediess In any soil.
mo The eOreIeSs apple win produce
great 9 sensation when brought begc
50 the public as the seedless orange did
ny few years ago. The orange Is IL
" ury; the aromatic apple has become
absolute necessity.