The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-07-21
NOW CORELESS APPLE
After Years Of Experiment q New
Soedless Fruit Has Been Produced.


seed1ess Fruit Has Been Produced.
The coreless apple has been pro-
duced and it is full Of possibilities.
The new fruit is regarded as 1.-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. If it
proves as large as it's rivals trees pro-
ducing the new wonder, which is Il
winter variety, will be planted by the
million in the commercial fruit fields
at home and abroad There is little
likelihood Of its impeding the prohta-
BILE sale OF ordinary apples of high
grade.
The new apple, which is both core
less and seedless, was introduced y
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 a 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 it usually does In
the open eye of the fruit. Moreover,
there IL 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, a slightly hardened
substance makes its appearance at tho
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 2OO,OOO,OOO apple
trees in bearing, from which O,OOO,-
600 bushels of fruit are annually har-
vested. In ten years these three will
give a yield Of 4OO,OOO,OOO bushels.
At the present time the apple con-
sumption Of the United States is eighty
poundsa head of the population a year.
By bushel measure the American up
pie crop is four times greater than the
entire wheat yield Of Great Britain
end 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 4,5OO, 900
and 100000 hundredweight. In ad-
dition, the writer estimates the census
of our apple trees at 2O,OOO,OOO.
There are now 1000 Of these core
less apple trees available for propasa-
ton to supply the orchards Of the
world It 10 estimated that by 1906
$4,000 of these trees will be put up
on the market.
The Spencer apple is not the first
secdless apple that has been grown.
During the last sixty years about half
a dozen such claimants have made
their appearance. But in no instance
was it found possible to reproduce
trees from them which 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 dAuch pear,
which produced fruit without seeds,
though when removed to another To-
cality the seeds reappeared In the fruit
In the usual way. This fact up to
that period had led the fruft-tree dis
tributers to treat the pear in one LEGAL
ity as the Bon Chretin d'Aueh and in
another district ts the Winter Bon
Chretin. But the Spencer apple re-
mains seedless in any soil
The coreless apple will produce N
great a sensation when brought before
the public as the seedless orange did a
few years ago. The orange Is q lux
ury; the aromatic apple has become an
absolute necessity.